Mark Hudis is an American television writer and producer

Television producer

The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...

 who has worked on a variety of shows including Cybill

Cybill

Cybill is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre, which aired on CBS from January 2, 1995 to July 13, 1998. Starring Cybill Shepherd, the series revolves around Cybill Sheridan, a twice-divorced single mother of two and struggling actress in her 40s, who has never gotten her show...

, That '70s Show

That '70s Show

That '70s Show is an American television period sitcom that centers on the lives of a group of teenage friends living in the fictional suburban town of Point Place, Wisconsin, from May 17, 1976, to December 31, 1979...

, Nurse Jackie

Nurse Jackie

Nurse Jackie is an American series that premiered on June 8, 2009, on Showtime, Movie Central and The Movie Network.The series stars Edie Falco as the title character Jackie Peyton, an emergency room nurse at All Saints' Hospital in New York City...

and True Blood

True Blood

True Blood is an American television series created and produced by Alan Ball. It is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris, detailing the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional, small town in the state of Louisiana...

. In 2010, his work on Nurse Jackie earned him both Writer's Guild of America and Emmy Award nominations.

He began his career writing for magazines. His work has appeared in MAD

MAD

Mad or MAD may refer to:* Infection with rabies, from the Latin term for madness* Moroccan dirham, the ISO 4217 code for the currency of Morocco* The state of being angry* The state of insanity...

, GQ and Playboy

Playboy

Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...

.

Career

Hudis began his writing career in 1997 when he received story credit for the Cybill episode "Like Family". He co-wote the episode "Bakersfield" with Alan Ball

Alan Ball (screenwriter)

Alan E. Ball is an American writer, director, actor and producer for film, theatre and television.-Early life:Ball was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to Frank and Mary Ball, an aircraft inspector and a homemaker...

 in 1998 and was then recruited as a writer and story editor on the Fox

Fox Broadcasting Company

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 sitcom That '70s Show. He remained a writer on the series for its entire eight season run, eventually becoming an executive producer at the beginning of its seventh season. He wrote a total of twenty-two episodes during the show's run. He became a writer and co-executive producer on Showtime's Nurse Jackie in 2009 and was an executive producer during the show's second season in 2010. Hudis will work on the writing staff of Alan Ball's vampire series True Blood

True Blood

True Blood is an American television series created and produced by Alan Ball. It is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris, detailing the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional, small town in the state of Louisiana...

for its fourth season in 2011.

That '70s Show episodes

• "Drive-In" (1.08)
• "Stolen Car" (1.14)
• "Hyde Moves In" (1.24)
• "Red's Birthday" (2.10)
• "The First Time" (2.16)
• "Parents Find Out" (2.19)
• "Roller Disco" (3.05)
• "Hyde's Christmas Rager" (3.09)
• "Holy Craps!" (3.20)
• "Bye-Bye Basement" (4.05)
• "Jackie Says Cheese" (4.13)
• "Hyde's Birthday" (4.23)
• "Black Dog" (5.09)
• "Hey, Hey What Can I Do?" (5.18)
• "Nobody's Fault But Mine" (5.23)
• "The Acid Queen" (6.04)
• "Baby Don't You Do It" (6.14)
• "Going Mobile" (6.24)
• "Mother's Little Helper" (7.07)
• "It's All Over Now" (7.16)
• "Til the Next Goodbye" (7.25)
• "Killer Queen" (8.12)

Nurse Jackie episodes

• "Chicken Soup" (1.03)
• "Twitter" (2.02)
• "P.O. Box" (2.09)

Awards and nominations

In 2011, Hudis received a Writer's Guild of America award nomination and an Emmy award nomination for Nurse Jackie, which he shared with the entire writing staff.

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