Ted Mann, Writer and Producer on 'Deadwood' and 'NYPD Blue,' Dies at 72 Andrew McGowanSeptember 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM 0 Jason Kempin Ted Mann, the Emmywinning television writer and producer who served in both capacities on "Deadwood" and "NYPD Blue," died Sept. 4 in Los Angeles. He was 72.
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Andrew McGowanSeptember 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Ted Mann, the Emmy-winning television writer and producer who served in both capacities on "Deadwood" and "NYPD Blue," died Sept. 4 in Los Angeles. He was 72.
His daughter Elizabeth reported that he died after a battle with lung cancer.
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Born in Canada, Mann began his career as an editor for the National Lampoon in the 1970s, eventually transitioning into the label's television projects as a writer on the TV special "Disco Beaver from Outer Space" and the short-lived "Animal House" spinoff, "Delta House." In the 1980s, he wrote the screenplay for Robert Altman's "O.C. and Stiggs," which was based on his National Lampoon characters, and then began writing crime television with episodes of "The Street," "Wiseguy," and "Miami Vice."
He also wrote for the Saturday morning cartoon "Ghostbusters" spinoff, "Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters," and penned the screenplay for the 1996 feature satire "Space Truckers."
In 1993, he started working with David Milch and Steven Bochco on ABC's "NYPD Blue" as a writer-producer. He earned two Emmy nominations for his work on the first season and returned for the second season where he was party of the team that won the Emmy for best drama series. Mann stopped producing the show after Season 2, but returned to write additional episodes throughout its 12-season run.
Mann and Milch reunited in 2004, when Milch created HBO's "Deadwood" and Mann served as a writer on the first season. While continuing to write, Mann started producing "Deadwood" during Season 2, which won a WGA Award for Best Dramatic Series. He stayed on as a writer-producer throughout the show's third and final season.
He wrote and produced with Milch again on HBO's "John from Cincinnati," and co-executive produced "Crash" on Starz. His other writing and producing credits include shows "Millennium," "Brooklyn South," "Total Recall 2070," "Andromeda," and the History Channel miniseries "Hatfields and McCoys." In 2015 and 2016, he wrote three episodes of "Homeland" and served as a consulting producer on the show.
He is survived by his wife, Bly, his three children; Elizabeth Mann (Michael Wallace), Lucy Bujold (Felix) and James Mann (Blair); siblings Bayne Mann (Deborah Nolan) and Tish Scott (Michael) and their children and grandchildren Virginia Wallace, Graham Wallace and Magnus Bujold.
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