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Ken Estin

Ken Estin

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Ken Estin is an American television producer and screenwriter.[1] He has worked on Taxi and Cheers and co-created The Tracey Ullman Show with James L. Brooks.[2] In 1982, Estin won an Emmy Award for Best Writing in a Comedy Series for the Taxi episode "Elegant Iggy" featuring Christopher Lloyd and, in 1989, he won an Emmy Award for producing The Tracey Ullman Show. Estin has had an additional eleven Emmy Award nominations and won the 1979 Writers Guild of America Award. Estin rewrote the screenplay for Beverly Hills Cop (1984) and received a special "thank you" credit in the feature film Big (1988).

Estin co wrote the sitcom Shaping Up with Sam Simon.[3]

Estin worked on as executive producer for the short-lived NBC/UPN show Minor Adjustments through Ken Estin Entertainment.[4]

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  1. [1]
    "A moment with..." Lawrence Journal-World. September 15, 1984. Retrieved 12 February 2013.
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    "San Francisco's Academy of Art University Enlists Entertainment Industry Veterans to Lead Its New School of Writing for Film, Television & Digital Media". PRWeb. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
  3. [3]
    Carlson, Michael (2015-09-03). "Sam Simon obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 2023-03-22. [Sam Simon] created, with Ken Estin, the short-lived Leslie Nielsen vehicle Shaping Up (1984),
  4. [4]
    "[UPN] Minor Adjustments:Ken Estin". vidiot.net. Retrieved 2021-11-23.


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