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David S. Rosenthal
David Samuel Rosenthal is an American writer and TV producer, best known as the executive producer of season seven of the popular comedy-drama Gilmore Girls and co-creator of the original Ellen TV series. 2Career Shortly after moving to Hollywood, Rosenthal was hired as a writer's assistant on the ABC sitcom Anything but Love. He began to write on his own and got a job on the show Nurses. Rosenthal was later hired as a staff writer on Anything but Love. When that ended, he wrote for Laurie Hill, a show created by Neil Marlens and Carol Black, the people behind The Wonder Years. With Marlens and Black, Rosenthal helped develop a sitcom for Laurie Hill co-star Ellen DeGeneres. The show, entitled These Friends of Mine, became Ellen. Pretty soon, Rosenthal was running it. He was just 24. 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 showrunne