Marc Scott Zicree has written and produced hundreds of hours of TV for most of the major studios and networks, including Paramount, Universal, Disney, Sony/Columbia Tri-Star, MGM, New Line, CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, WB, UPN, Showtime, PBS, Turner, USA Network, Syfy, Discovery, Nickelodeon, the BBC, Marvel, and NPR. Credits include Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Babylon 5, Sliders, Friday the 13th: The Series, He-Man, The Real Ghostbusters, The Smurfs, and many others, as well as numerous network pilots. Regarded as one of the country's top media experts, Zicree has been interviewed by hundreds of newspapers, magazines, and TV and radio shows, including The Today Show, American Masters, All Things Considered, Entertainment Tonight, E! True Hollywood Story, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Variety, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. Beyond his three-year stint as a commentator on NPR's Morning Edition, he is a regular guest on Coast to Coast, one of the country's top-rated nighttime radio shows. He has lectured at many colleges, professional conferences, and museums in America, Europe, and Asia, including USC, UCLA, Stanford, and Ithaca College, where he was a keynote speaker. Zicree's landmark book, The Twilight Zone Companion, has been credited with creating the modern genre of books on TV series and inspiring a generation of series creators and filmmakers, including J. J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof. The Companion was an instant best-seller (over a half million copies sold to date) and was named in 2006 one of The New York Times' ten "Science Fiction Books for the Ages"--the only nonfiction book on the list. In addition, Zicree is a lauded novelist with the best-selling Magic Time trilogy, published by HarperCollins and Blackstone Audio. His most recent book, co-written with director Guillermo del Toro, is Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities for HarperCollins. Beyond this, Zicree is the founder and for the last twenty-two years has run The Table, which has provided a supportive community to thousands of entertainment industry professionals in Hollywood, at no charge. (The 2011 documentary about this support group, The Table, won a Best Documentary Award at the SoCal Film Festival and has been screening on Hulu and Netflix and via iTunes.) Nominated for the American Book Award, the Humanitas Prize, and Diane Thomas Screenwriting Award, Zicree has won the Hamptons Prize and the Rondo and Saturn awards, and was name