William Lucas (Bill) Walker is an Emmy Award-winning writer/producer who recently sold the original comedy-adventure series Time/Bolt to Amazon Studios. He is currently adapting his popular Huffington Post humor column “Spilled Milk” as a family comedy for network television.
Past writer/producer credits include the TV classics Frasier, Will & Grace and Roseanne, cited by The Writers Guild of America as three of the “101 Best Written Series in Television.”
Bill’s work in hour television includes having co-created the critically-acclaimed Showtime comedy The Chris Isaak Show, as well as staffing on the ABC Family flop, Three Moons Over Milford.
In television, Bill has partnered with Phoenix Pictures, Storyline Entertainment and Laurence Mark Productions in series development, inking deals with Amazon Studios, Showtime, ABC Studios, Sony Television and Disney.
After his children were born, Bill took an extended hiatus from television to pursue a long-delayed dream: full-time fatherhood. In 2012 Arianna Huffington heard about his experiences — as a stay-at-home Hollywood dad raising kids without a nanny — and offered him a recurring humor column in the Huffington Post. “Spilled Milk” — the first column by a gay parent to appear in a mainstream national publication — quickly became a hit with readers.
Interest in his HuffPost columns led to an invitation to develop two series with Scott Free Productions, Ridley Scott’s shingle. Those projects attracted the attention of senior executives at HBO and Showtime, marking Bill’s return to television. Since selling TIME/BOLT to Amazon in 2017, he has begun partnering with a variety of producers, directors and studio pods to develop original series.
Bill is a founding member and current host of “Sundays at 7,” a supper club founded to give television comedy writers and historians a chance to dine with the heroes who inspired their careers. Industry legends Bill and the group have hosted include Carl Reiner, Norman Lear, Bob Newhart, Treva Silverman, Irma Kalish, Ken Levine and David Isaacs. In the back rooms of L.A.’s best and worst restaurants and delis, these comedy trailblazers have dined out on the laughs, anecdotes and backstories of their groundbreaking work, sharing behind-the-scenes stories from their days at The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, All In The Family, Maude, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, M*A*S*H, Newhart, Cheers and The Simpsons.
Bill is a founder and board member of The Pop Luck Club, an organization of Southern California gay dads, where he advises and mentors new and expectant fathers. At Larchmont Charter School, Bill introduced and chaired No Name-Calling Week and the Celebrate Kindness programs. He actively supports Get Lit, which introduces the power of poetry to schools throughout Southern California. Bill and his daughter Elizabeth are regular parent/teen contributors to the “Perspectives” column of Your Teen magazine.
Career Trivia: Bill is known for his Season 4 Frasier episode “Are You Being Served?” which drew the longest studio-audience laugh in the show’s 11-year run (Niles’ Hot n Foamy moment from “The Truth About Rats & Dogs”). He also made television history by writing the first same-sex wedding on a prime time sitcom (the 1995 Roseanne episode “December Bride”).
Career Regrets: never got a shot at writing for The Flintstones.
Graduate of the Warner Bros. Comedy Writers’ Workshop.
Born and raised in Clinton, South Carolina, second of four sons raised by James and Betty Walker. Chews pencils.
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