Richard Timothy Kring (born July 9, 1957) is an American screenwriter and

television producer A television producer is a person who oversees one or more aspects of video production on a television program. Some producers take more of an executive role, in that they conceive new programs and pitch them to the television networks, but upon ...

, best known for his creation of the drama series '' Strange World'', ''

Crossing Jordan ''Crossing Jordan'' is an American crime drama Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its dete ...

'', '' Heroes'', and ''

Touch In physiology, the somatosensory system is the network of neural structures in the brain and body that produce the perception of touch ( haptic perception), as well as temperature ( thermoception), body position (proprioception), and pain. It ...

''.

Early life

Kring was born in

El Dorado County, California El Dorado County (), officially the County of El Dorado, is a List of counties in California, county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 191,185. The county seat is Place ...

. He is

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

. He has two brothers and a sister. He attended Allan Hancock College, where his father, Ray, was the track coach, then graduated from the

University of Southern California , mottoeng = "Let whoever earns the palm bear it" , religious_affiliation = Nonsectarian—historically Methodist , established = , accreditation = WSCUC , type = Private research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $8.1 ...

School of Cinematic Arts The University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts (SCA) houses seven academic divisions: Film & Television Production; Cinema & Media Studies; John C. Hench Division of Animation + Digital Arts; John Wells Division of Writing for S ...

in 1983. Discussing his beginnings, Kring said:

Career

Kring's first job as a screenwriter was for the television show '' Knight Rider''. Other early projects included co-writing an episode of '' Misfits of Science'' (which, like his later project ''Heroes'', featured super-powered humans as a main theme) and '' Teen Wolf Too'' with

Jeph Loeb Joseph "Jeph" Loeb III () is an American film and television writer, producer and comic book writer. Loeb was a producer/writer on the TV series ''Smallville'' and ''Lost'', writer for the films '' Commando'' and ''Teen Wolf'', and a writer and ...

. Kring and Loeb would collaborate again when producing ''Heroes''. Kring also co-wrote the 2010 book '' Shift: A Novel (Gates of Orpheus Trilogy)'' with Dale Peck. In 1999, it signed a deal with

NBC The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network. The flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast, its headquarters are l ...

. After the cancellation of ''Heroes'' in 2010 Kring created the TV series ''

'', a drama focusing on a father (

Kiefer Sutherland Kiefer William Sutherland (born 21 December 1966) is a British-Canadian actor and musician. He is best known for his starring role as Jack Bauer in the Fox drama series ''24 (TV series), 24'' (2001–2010, 2014), for which he won an Emmy Award ...

) who discovers that his mute son can predict future events. The series premiered on January 25, 2012 on Fox and was cancelled after two seasons on May 9, 2013. On February 22, 2014, during its Olympics coverage, NBC announced ''Heroes'' was coming back as a 13-episode event miniseries titled '' Heroes Reborn''. It premiered in 2015 with creator Tim Kring as the

executive producer Executive producer (EP) is one of the top positions in the making of a commercial entertainment product. Depending on the medium, the executive producer may be concerned with management accounting or associated with legal issues (like copyrights ...

Awards and nominations

Kring has been nominated for an

Emmy Award The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the calendar year, each with the ...

in 2007 for Outstanding Drama Series as the producer for ''Heroes''. He was also named one of th
Masters of Sci Fi TV
for his work on the series.Master of Sci-Fi: Tim Kring

Filmography

Film

Television

The numbers in writing credits refer to the number of episodes.

References

External links

*
Interview: Tim Kring, ''Heroes'' creator
''The TV Addict'', 2006-10-12
NBC's Super ''Heroes'': Burning Questions Answered!
''

TV Guide TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program listings information as well as entertainment and television-related news. The company sold its print magazine division, TV Guide Magazine LLC, in 2008. Corporat ...

'', 2006-10-16 (archive.org link) {{DEFAULTSORT:Kring, Tim American male film actors American male screenwriters American soap opera writers Television producers from California Jewish American writers People from El Dorado County, California USC School of Cinematic Arts alumni 1957 births Living people Showrunners American male television writers Screenwriters from California 21st-century American Jews