David Shore is a Canadian-born writer, best known for his work writing
and producing in television. A former lawyer, Shore became known for
his work on Family Law and NYPD Blue. Shore also produced many
episodes of the hit cult television series Due South, before creating
a show of his own, House, M. D..
Biography

David Shore was born on July 3, 1959 in London, Ontario, Canada. He is
the only member of his family involved in television, as his twin
younger brothersâ€"Philip and Robertâ€"are rabbis.

Shore attended the University of Toronto and worked as a municipal and
corporate lawyer in his native Canada before he moved to Los Angeles
to break into television. He sees this as a lateral move, as he does
not consider being an attorney an uncreative occupation. He wrote for
the television series Due Southâ€"about another Canadian transplanted in
America, albeit a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Forceâ€"before he became a producer on the ABC drama NYPD Blue. He was
nominated for two Emmys for his work on that series.

He then moved on to the series Family Law, Hack and Century City, but
did not hit the commercial success he had found with his earlier work.
In 2003, producer Paul Attanasioâ€"who had previously worked with NBC on
such shows as Homicide: Life on the Street and Gideon's
Crossingâ€"approached Shore to request a procedural, as he knew the
network was looking for another one to follow up on the success of Law
& Order and to imitate CBS' success with CSI and NCIS. Attanasio's
idea was to apply the police procedural genre to a show about doctors.
While in most procedurals the characters are secondary to the mystery,
Shore claims to have realized that a medical procedural should place
the mystery secondary to the hero. He therefore conceived of a hero
similar to the iconic detective Sherlock Holmesâ€"although many who know
him well have suggested the character also bears resemblances to
himself, and the final character is not entirely dissimilar from Dr.
Ben Gideon, hero of Attanasio's previous television misstep, Gideon's
Crossing, although Shore's hero was much more acerbic.

That hero was Dr. Gregory House, hero of House, M.D. Although NBC took
a pass on the series, FOX picked it up, and by the end of season one,
it was their biggest new hit of the 2004â€"05 season. Shore wrote or
co-wrote five episodes of that first season, including the Pilot and
the season one pre-finale, "Three Stories," in which he intricately
weaved the stories of three patients whilst also revealing the reason
for Dr. House's limp and hydrocodone (Vicodin) addiction. For writing
the latter of these he won the 2005 Emmy for "Outstanding Writing for
a Drama Series."

Shore made his directorial debut on the series House by directing the
season 2 finale "No Reason."

Due to the success of House, Shore has recently been granted a
generous contract for a fourth season. He has recently finished
production of the police TV show Winters starring Famke Janssen.

He lives in Encino Hills, California, with his wife Judy and their
three children.

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There are a couple of interesting facts I note from this bio - the
fact that his twin brothers are rabbis, which may have figured into
the theme of the latest epi: "Don't Ever Change." Additionally, notice
the mention of how he had written for "Hack," which starred (surprise!
surprise!) who, we all know, returned as H's nemesis in the Season 3
story arc of H's legal troubles. The fact that Stacy is a lawyer may
make sense when one considers that David is a lawyer himself.