Michael Edelstein, born February 20, 1968 in
Los Angeles, CaliforniaLos Angeles is the largest city in the state of California and the second largest in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California...
, is an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
television producerThe 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...
.
Together with
Marc CherryMarc Cherry is an American writer and producer, best known for creating the show Desperate Housewives.-Early career:...
and
Tom SpezialyTom Spezialy is an American television producer, director and screen writer. In 2007, began serving as executive producer of Reaper.-Career:Spezialy began his career in 1989 writing for the CBS television series Doctor Doctor...
, Edelstein was one of the original
executive producerAn executive producer is a producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the filmmaking or music process, but who is still responsible for the overall production. Typically an executive producer handles business and legal issues. See also associate producer, co-producer, line producer...
s for
Desperate HousewivesDesperate 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...
, for which he was awarded an
EmmyThe Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards , Grammy Awards and Tony Awards .They are presented in various...
nomination. Following creative conflicts with series creator Cherry during the second season of the series, Edelstein left the series in January 2006.
In addition to
Desperate Housewives, Edelstein has been executive producer for the thriller series
Threat MatrixThreat Matrix is a 2003 American drama television series. It lasted 16 episodes. The plot consisted of the events in a United States Homeland Security anti-terrorism unit, led by Special agent John Kilmer....
, and the sitcom
Hope & FaithHope & Faith is an American sitcom that aired for three seasons on ABC from September 26, 2003 to May 2, 2006. For its first two seasons the show was part of a revived TGIF comedy block....
, as well as telefilms
Haunting Sarah from 2005 and
Him and Us from 2006.
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Michael Edelstein, born February 20, 1968 in
Los Angeles, CaliforniaLos Angeles is the largest city in the state of California and the second largest in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California...
, is an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
television producerThe 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...
.
Together with
Marc CherryMarc Cherry is an American writer and producer, best known for creating the show Desperate Housewives.-Early career:...
and
Tom SpezialyTom Spezialy is an American television producer, director and screen writer. In 2007, began serving as executive producer of Reaper.-Career:Spezialy began his career in 1989 writing for the CBS television series Doctor Doctor...
, Edelstein was one of the original
executive producerAn executive producer is a producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the filmmaking or music process, but who is still responsible for the overall production. Typically an executive producer handles business and legal issues. See also associate producer, co-producer, line producer...
s for
Desperate HousewivesDesperate 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...
, for which he was awarded an
EmmyThe Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards , Grammy Awards and Tony Awards .They are presented in various...
nomination. Following creative conflicts with series creator Cherry during the second season of the series, Edelstein left the series in January 2006.
In addition to
Desperate Housewives, Edelstein has been executive producer for the thriller series
Threat MatrixThreat Matrix is a 2003 American drama television series. It lasted 16 episodes. The plot consisted of the events in a United States Homeland Security anti-terrorism unit, led by Special agent John Kilmer....
, and the sitcom
Hope & FaithHope & Faith is an American sitcom that aired for three seasons on ABC from September 26, 2003 to May 2, 2006. For its first two seasons the show was part of a revived TGIF comedy block....
, as well as telefilms
Haunting Sarah from 2005 and
Him and Us from 2006. He is also executive producer for the 2009 space drama,
Defying GravityDefying Gravity is a multi-nationally produced space travel television drama series, first aired on August 2, 2009 on ABC and CTV. Set in the year 2052, with flashbacks to five and ten years earlier in the story's continuity, the series follows eight astronauts—four women and four men—from five...
.