Bill D'Elia
Bill D'Elia is an American television screenwriter, producer, and director, linked to many popular and award-winning shows in the late 20th and early 21st century.
Works
The Lincoln Lawyer
Sidelined after an accident, hotshot Los Angeles lawyer Mickey Haller restarts his career - and his trademark Lincoln - when he takes on a murder case.
Release Date: 2022-05-13
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 336
Big Shot
After getting ousted from his job in the NCAA for throwing a chair at a referee, a hothead men’s basketball coach Marvyn Korn must take a job at Westbrook School for Girls, a private all-girls high school, in an effort to redeem what's left of his career and reputation.
Release Date: 2021-04-16
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 20
Vote Count: 333
Grand Hotel
Santiago Mendoza owns last family-owned hotel in multicultural Miami Beach, while his glamorous second wife, Gigi, and their adult children enjoy the spoils of success.
Release Date: 2019-06-17
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 157
The Resident
A tough, brilliant senior resident guides an idealistic young doctor through his first day, pulling back the curtain on what really happens, both good and bad, in modern-day medicine.
Release Date: 2018-01-21
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 1233
The Good Doctor
Shaun Murphy, a young surgeon with autism and savant syndrome, relocates from a quiet country life to join a prestigious hospital's surgical unit. Unable to personally connect with those around him, Shaun uses his extraordinary medical gifts to save lives and challenge the skepticism of his colleagues.
Release Date: 2017-09-25
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 12495
Chris D'Elia: Man on Fire
Unbridled comic Chris D'Elia reconsiders his approach to major life events like marriage, not having kids and buying pants for your friends.
Release Date: 2017-06-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 44
Goliath
Once a powerful lawyer, Billy McBride is now burned out and washed up, spending more time in a bar than a courtroom. When he reluctantly agrees to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit against the biggest client of Cooperman & McBride, the massive law firm he helped create, Billy and his ragtag team uncover a vast and deadly conspiracy, pitting them all in a life or death trial against the ultimate Goliath.
Release Date: 2016-10-13
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 404
The Catch
Strong and successful Alice Martin is a fraud investigator who's about to be the victim of fraud by her fiancé. Between her cases, she is determined to find him before it ruins her career.
Release Date: 2016-03-24
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 115
Chris D'Elia: Incorrigible
Comedian and actor Chris D’Elia, known for his dynamic physical comedy, explains why the NFL would be way more entertaining if it were real lions, bears and Vikings battling each other, that babies are the worst prize ever, and that you should never ask a Cuban directions unless you’re ready for the best time of your life.
Release Date: 2015-04-17
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 50
How to Get Away with Murder
A sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor. They become entangled in a murder plot and will shake the entire university and change the course of their lives.
Release Date: 2014-09-25
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 11
Vote Count: 1633
Manhattan
Set against the backdrop of the greatest clandestine race against time in the history of science with the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Flawed scientists and their families attempt to co-exist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.
Release Date: 2014-07-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 120
Chris D'Elia: White Male. Black Comic.
Powerhouse stand-up Chris D’Elia takes New Orleans by storm in his very first one-hour stand-up special, “White Male. Black Comic.,” on Comedy Central. British dudes, drunk girls, and bears on romantic dates at Applebee’s. Hey, why is it that we are the only species that makes love, anyway? Chris D’Elia explains the hilarious truth and more in this dynamic new special.
Release Date: 2013-12-06
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 11
The Crazy Ones
The Crazy Ones is an American situation comedy series created by David E. Kelley that stars Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar. The single-camera project premiered on CBS on September 26, 2013, as part of the 2013–14 American television season as a Thursday night 9 pm entry. Bill D'Elia, Dean Lorey, Jason Winer, John Montgomery and Mark Teitelbaum serve as executive producers for 20th Century Fox Television.
Release Date: 2013-09-26
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 111
Monday Mornings
Monday Mornings was an American medical drama television series that ran on TNT from February 4 to April 8, 2013 and aired Mondays after Dallas. It is based on a novel of the same name by Sanjay Gupta. In May 2012, TNT placed a ten-episode order for the series. On May 10, 2013, Monday Mornings was canceled by TNT.
Release Date: 2013-02-04
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 17
Harry's Law
Harriet, Matthew and Malcolm couldn't be any more different, but when they cross paths, they realize they're all looking for a fresh start. The most unlikely of people are starting a law practice in the most unlikely of places -- a rundown shoe store.
Release Date: 2011-01-17
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 34
Vote Count: 40
Eastwick
Three very different women find themselves drawn together by a mysterious man who unleashes unique powers in each of them, and this small New England town will never be the same.
Release Date: 2009-09-23
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 46
Glee
In this musical comedy, optimistic high school teacher Will Schuester tries to refuel his own passion while reinventing the high school's glee club and challenging a group of outcasts to realize their star potential as they strive to outshine their singing competition while navigating the cruel halls of McKinley High.
Release Date: 2009-05-19
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 839
The Mentalist
Patrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and expertise at "reading" people to solve serious crimes with the California Bureau of Investigation.
Release Date: 2008-09-23
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 3857
My Date with Drew
Ever since the second grade when he first saw her in E.T. The Extraterrestrial, Brian Herzlinger has had a crush on Drew Barrymore. Now, 20 years later he's decided to try to fulfill his lifelong dream by asking her for a date. There's one small problem: She's Drew Barrymore and he's, well, Brian Herzlinger, a broke 27-year-old aspiring filmmaker from New Jersey.
Release Date: 2005-08-05
Character: Self
Vote Count: 59
Grey's Anatomy
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
Release Date: 2005-03-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 8
Vote Count: 10385
Boston Legal
Alan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston law firm in a series focusing on the professional and personal lives of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys. A spin-off of long-running series The Practice.
Release Date: 2004-10-03
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 17
Vote Count: 327
The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire
The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire is an American drama series created by David E. Kelley that aired on CBS. The show offers the typical quirkiness and eccentric humor that have become synonymous with David E. Kelley's shows. The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire has been described as "Northern Exposure with middle-aged angst and populated with the sort of oddball supporting characters so typical of the Kelley oeuvre." The show was canceled after five episodes due to poor ratings.
Release Date: 2003-09-24
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Miracles
Miracles follows Paul Callan, an investigator of modern miracles for the Catholic Church who questions his faith after repeatedly finding mundane explanations for various supposed phenomena. After he witnesses a true, supernatural miracle that saves his life, only for his findings to be dismissed on a lack of evidence, Paul leaves behind the Church and is approached by Alva Keel to join his organization Sodalitas Quaerito, investigating and cataloguing "unexplainable" phenomena. Along with former police officer Evelyn Santos, Paul and Alva attempt to battle the impending "darkness" before it's too late.
Release Date: 2003-01-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 12
111 Gramercy Park
Unsold series pilot about wealthy New Yorkers who live in an upscale apartment building, and the various maids, nannies and maintenance people who work for them.
Release Date: 2003-01-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
American Dreams
Release Date: 2002-09-29
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 13
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
Release Date: 2001-09-30
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 346
The West Wing
The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.
Release Date: 1999-09-22
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 499
Judging Amy
Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly. Its main character is a judge who serves in a family court, and in addition to the family-related cases that she adjudicates, many episodes of the show focus on her own experiences as a divorced mother, and on the experiences of her mother, a social worker who works in the field of child welfare. This series was based on the life experiences of Brenneman's mother.
Release Date: 1999-09-19
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 76
Get Real
Get Real was a short-lived comedy-drama on the FOX Network centering on the fictional Green family of Los Angeles. It ran from September 1999 to April 2000. It starred Eric Christian Olsen and Anne Hathaway in very early roles, as the older siblings to central character of the series, youngest child, Kenny.
Release Date: 1999-09-08
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 6
Ally McBeal
Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an incredibly overactive imagination that's working overtime!
Release Date: 1997-09-08
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 8
Vote Count: 317
The Practice
A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”
Release Date: 1997-03-04
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 103
The Tomorrow Man
The android Kent is programmed to travel back in time and save humanity from its future. His way leads to earth, which is going to be destroyed by a great rocket-disaster. As he wants to prohibit this, a mad scientist is in his way. But there are more problems: He has to act as a human. Computer-expert Jonathan Driscoll becomes his mentor and tries to help and repair him.
Release Date: 1996-09-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 9
In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy
This is a story of two lovers, Luke and Laurette. Luke is the grandson of a rich Texas family who raised him after the death of his parents. Laurette is daughter of a blue-collar worker. They have different worlds, different lifestyles... What if they meet? After a car accident with his fiancée, Luke can no longer walk without the assistance of orthopedic canes. Because of his disability, his fiancée leaves him. While at a barbecue at his best friend's home, Luke then meets Laurette.
Release Date: 1995-09-12
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2
Big Dreams & Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story
Dottie West fought a difficult childhood to rise as one of country music's icons winning the first ever Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 1965. She pushed the boundaries of country music and befriended some of their greatest musical artistes. Poor management besieged her with financial problems and she was on her way to fighting them through when she was tragically killed.
Release Date: 1995-01-22
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2
Chicago Hope
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show is set to return in the fall of 2013 on TVGN in reruns.
Release Date: 1994-09-18
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 17
Vote Count: 75
Harts of the West
Harts of the West is an American Western/comedy–drama series starring Beau Bridges and his father, Lloyd Bridges, set on a dude ranch in Nevada. The series aired on CBS from September 1993, to June 1994.
Release Date: 1993-09-25
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 4
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
A much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty years earlier, Lois & Clark focused more on the Man of Steel's early adult years in Metropolis. With the unknowing help of Lois Lane, Clark Kent created Superman there in Metropolis after finding work at the world-famous Daily Planet newspaper, where he meets fellow reporter Lois Lane.
Release Date: 1993-09-12
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 451
Reasonable Doubts
A police drama about the working relationship between Assistant DA Tess Kaufman, a prosecutor sensitive to the rights of the accused, and hard-charging, gruff Detective Dicky Cobb, an old-fashioned cop with a "bust-the-perps" attitude. Reasonable Doubts was broadcast in the United States by NBC and ran from 1991 to 1993.
Release Date: 1991-09-26
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 6
Beverly Hills, 90210
Follow the lives of a group of teenagers living in the upscale, star-studded community of Beverly Hills, California and attending the fictitious West Beverly Hills High School and, subsequently, the fictitious California University after graduation.
Release Date: 1990-10-04
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 736
Law & Order
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
Release Date: 1990-09-13
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 600
Northern Exposure
After receiving a scholarship from the state, a recent Columbia University medical school graduate is required to set up his practice in an eccentric Alaskan town.
Release Date: 1990-07-12
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 5
Vote Count: 167
The Feud
All Dolph Beeler wanted was a can of paint remover when he went to Bud Bullard's hardware store in Millville. But a simple misunderstandling between two men has turned into an outright war between two towns in this outrageous comedy of errors.--Summary from container. -- WorldCat
Release Date: 1989-09-30
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 3
Doogie Howser, M.D.
Doogie Howser is a doctor. He is also a 16-year-old genius who graduated college at age 10 and finished medical school at age 14. But he is still a teenager, with normal teenage friends and problems. But unlike a normal teenager, he is just learning to drive while also consulting on serious medical cases like heart transplants.
Release Date: 1989-09-19
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 103
Wonder Woman
It's the modern day, and being Wonder Woman is complicated. Diana is leading a triple life - running a large corporation out of costume and fighting crime in costume in one identity. A never-aired television pilot expected to debut in 2011, but NBC opted not to buy the series.
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 28