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Joey Murphy

Joey Murphy

Overview
Joey Murphy is screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scenarists or scriptwriters are people in a film crew who write/create the screenplays from which films and television programs are made....

 and television producer
Television producer
The primary role of a television producer is to control all aspects of production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...

, currently working as executive producer for Desperate Housewives
Desperate Housewives
Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series created by Marc Cherry, who also serves as show runner, and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. Executive producers, as of the fourth season, are Marc Cherry, Bob Daily, George W...

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Murphy has written episodes of the cartoon, Doug
Doug
Doug is an American animated sitcom that was created by Jim Jinkins and produced by Jumbo Pictures for the Nickelodeon network, as the first of their successful line of Nicktoons. Later on, the series was then produced for Disney for airing on ABC's One Saturday Morning block...

, The Crew
The Crew (TV series)
The Crew is an American television sitcom that aired from August 31, 1995 to June 30, 1996 on the FOX Network.-Synopsis:The show followed the lives of a group of flight attendants working for the fictitious Regency Airlines. Jess Jameson and Maggie Reynolds are roommates and work together and...

, and Cybill Shepherd
Cybill Shepherd
Cybill Lynne Shepherd is an American actress, singer and former fashion model.Her best known roles include starring as Jacy in The Last Picture Show, Maddie Hayes in Moonlighting, as Cybill Sheridan in Cybill, as Betsy in Taxi Driver and as Phyllis Kroll in The L Word. She recently starred in the...

's sitcom, Cybill
Cybill
Cybill is an American sitcom which aired on CBS from 1995 to 1998, starring Cybill Shepherd in the lead role.-Synopsis:Shepherd portrayed the character of somewhat faded television actress Cybill Sheridan who, because of her age, had been relegated to playing character roles, bit parts and TV...

, the last two for which he also served as producer. He also collaborated with Marc Cherry
Marc Cherry
Marc Cherry is an American writer and producer, best known for creating the show Desperate Housewives.-Early career:...

 on the sitcom, The Golden Girls
The Golden Girls
The Golden Girls is an American sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992. Starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty, the show centers on four older women sharing a Miami, Florida home...

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When Desperate Housewives began in 2004, Murphy was one of the staff writers, and for the second year, he was promoted to co-executive producer.
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Joey Murphy is screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scenarists or scriptwriters are people in a film crew who write/create the screenplays from which films and television programs are made....

 and television producer
Television producer
The primary role of a television producer is to control all aspects of production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...

, currently working as executive producer for Desperate Housewives
Desperate Housewives
Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series created by Marc Cherry, who also serves as show runner, and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. Executive producers, as of the fourth season, are Marc Cherry, Bob Daily, George W...

.

Murphy has written episodes of the cartoon, Doug
Doug
Doug is an American animated sitcom that was created by Jim Jinkins and produced by Jumbo Pictures for the Nickelodeon network, as the first of their successful line of Nicktoons. Later on, the series was then produced for Disney for airing on ABC's One Saturday Morning block...

, The Crew
The Crew (TV series)
The Crew is an American television sitcom that aired from August 31, 1995 to June 30, 1996 on the FOX Network.-Synopsis:The show followed the lives of a group of flight attendants working for the fictitious Regency Airlines. Jess Jameson and Maggie Reynolds are roommates and work together and...

, and Cybill Shepherd
Cybill Shepherd
Cybill Lynne Shepherd is an American actress, singer and former fashion model.Her best known roles include starring as Jacy in The Last Picture Show, Maddie Hayes in Moonlighting, as Cybill Sheridan in Cybill, as Betsy in Taxi Driver and as Phyllis Kroll in The L Word. She recently starred in the...

's sitcom, Cybill
Cybill
Cybill is an American sitcom which aired on CBS from 1995 to 1998, starring Cybill Shepherd in the lead role.-Synopsis:Shepherd portrayed the character of somewhat faded television actress Cybill Sheridan who, because of her age, had been relegated to playing character roles, bit parts and TV...

, the last two for which he also served as producer. He also collaborated with Marc Cherry
Marc Cherry
Marc Cherry is an American writer and producer, best known for creating the show Desperate Housewives.-Early career:...

 on the sitcom, The Golden Girls
The Golden Girls
The Golden Girls is an American sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992. Starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty, the show centers on four older women sharing a Miami, Florida home...

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When Desperate Housewives began in 2004, Murphy was one of the staff writers, and for the second year, he was promoted to co-executive producer. Starting with the first episode of season four, he is now executive producer. Throughout his career, Murphy has worked with John Pardee
John Pardee
John Pardee is an American screenwriter and television producer, currently working as executive producer for Desperate Housewives.During the 1990s, Pardee wrote episodes of several television series, including the cartoon Doug, the short lived sitcoms Charlie Hoover, Thunder Alley and The Crew and...

, and the two also have written the script to the upcoming remake of Mad Monster Party?
Mad Monster Party?
Mad Monster Party is a 1967 American animated comedy film released by Embassy Pictures for Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc.-Plot:Baron von Frankenstein decides to retire, leaving the monster business to his nerdy nephew, Felix Flankin...

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Producer

  • The Crew (Producer, unknown episodes)
  • Cybill (Supervising producer, 8 episodes, 1997-1998; consulting producer 5 episodes, 1997)
  • Desperate Housewives (Co-executive producer, 38 episodes, 2005-2007; executive producer, 14 episodes, 2007-2008; consulting producer, 7 episodes, 2004-2005)

Writer

  • Doug (1 episode, 1991)
  • The 5 Mrs. Buchanans (3 episodes, 1994)
  • The Crew (2 episodes, 1995)
  • Cybill (1 episode, 1997)
  • Desperate Housewives (12 episodes, 2004-2008)
  • Mad Monster Party (2008)