- Born
- Birth nameDavid Ian Shore
- David Shore has written for cult favorite Due South, NYPD Blue and EZ Streets, served as head writer and supervising producer on Traders, which he developed for Canadian television, and was part of the writing team of the Emmy Award-winning first season of The Practice. He was twice nominated for an Emmy as a producer on Law & Order and executive-produced both Family Law and Hack before creating House.
House has won awards as varied as the People's Choice and the Peabody. Shore won the HUMANITAS Prize and an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for his HOUSE episode "Three Stories."
That's all you really need to know about him.- IMDb mini biography by: Humanitas Official Website
- RelativesRaphael Shore(Sibling)
- Prior to becoming a writer, Shore was a partner in a law firm in Toronto, Ontario, where he practiced corporate and municipal law.
- Graduated of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law school in 1982.
- His favorite TV show is The Rockford Files (1974).
- Former stand up comedian who was once named "The Third Funniest Person in London".
- Graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1979.
- [on 'House'] It's always sad, in some ways, when something ends. Whatever this turns out to be - eight years, nine years, ten years - it's been a tremendous experience. It's been way more than I could have possibly imagined. It's been unbelievable. I was extremely lucky, as a writer, to be able to explore this character for one year, never mind eight.
- [on writing 'House.M.D.'] The challenge was always, either the patient gets better or the patient dies. We did try to break up the formula now and then, but fundamentally I was comfortable with it. We departed from it on occasion, and those departures worked. The real challenge though was that I didn't want people going, 'I wonder if he will get better'. Rather, I wanted them to think, 'What's House going to do, and how is everybody going to react to that'. The stories were about him figuring out the challenge, discovering what the obstacles were and then finding a way to overcome those obstacles. The fun part for me, for us as writers, was to make that aspect of it a surprise, week in and week out.
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