Name David Rosenthal TV shows Ellen, Arsenio | Role Television producer | |
Similar People Neal Marlens, Carol Black, Gabe Sachs, Ellen DeGeneres, Clea Lewis | ||
David Stephen Rosenthal is an American television producer, and was the last executive producer of the American dramedy Gilmore Girls, in that show's seventh and final season. Rosenthal is also a former producer for the American sitcom Hope & Faith and the American sitcom Ellen which he also co-created.
Within a year, Rosenthal swiftly jumped from being a production assistant on Anything but Love to staff writer on the same show; then two years later, another jump, this time to a head writer position on Ellen; Rosenthal stayed for three years and then was reportedly fired. After a year-long stint developing sitcoms for Jeffrey Katzenberg, he was hired as a writer on the sitcom Spin City and was quickly promoted to showrunner.
Rosenthal married a fellow Spin City writer, Sarah Dunn, and landed a lucrative $2.5 million contract with Fox Television. He later quit his job on Spin City to focus on writing a controversial play about supermodel Heidi Klum.