You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.

In the second year he became executive story editor and co-producer. Originally intending to write only the first several episodes in order to return full-time to Picket Fences Kelley eventually wrote most of the material for both shows a total of roughly 40 scripts. D.

Kelley is one of very few screenwriters to have had a show created by him run on all four of the top commercial U. David Edward Kelley (born April 4 1956) is an American television writer and producer known as the creator of Picket Fences Chicago Hope The Practice Ally McBeal Boston Public Boston Legal and Harry's Law as well as several films.