Ted Mann Dies: Emmy-Winning Writer-Producer Who Worked On ‘NYPD Blue,’ ‘Homeland,’ ‘Deadwood’ & More Was 72

Ted Mann, a writer-producer who won an Emmy for producing NYPD Blue and also earned nominations for producing Homeland and Deadwood and for writing Hatfields & McCoys, has died. He was 72.

Our sister site Variety said his daughter Elizabeth revealed that Mann died September 4 of lung cancer in Los Angeles.

Along with his producing Emmy for NYPD Blue as Outstanding Drama Series in 1995, Mann was nominated in the category three other times — for NYPD Blue in 1994, Deadwood in 2005 and Homeland in 2016. He also scored Emmy noms for writing NYPD Blue and the 2012 miniseries Hatfields & McCoys. He also won a Writers Guild Award for the latter and picked up back-to-back WGA noms for Deadwood in 2006 and 2007.

Mann got his start in the late 1970s writing for ABC’s Delta House — one of three TV series inspired by the 1978 film Animal House — and the animated Drawing Power, from the creators of Schoolhouse Rock. He got more steady work in the late ’80 and into the 1990s, penning more than a dozen episodes of ABC’s 1991-93 legal drama Civil Wars.

After that series wrapped, Mann joined the network’s gritty cop drama NYPD Blue as a writer and producer. Starring David Caruso and Hill Street Blues alum Dennis Franz, the show’s first season made the primetime Top 20 and would rank No. 7 the following year while racking up Emmy noms and wins. He was a writer-producer on the show for its first two seasons and later penned episodes for Seasons 5 and 6.

His next gig was as a writer-producer for Millennium, the X-Files follow-up series from Chris Carter. When that Fox series wrapped after three seasons, Mann joined Showtime’s Total Recall 2070, which aired a single season in 1999.

MORE TO COME…