Ricky Blitt is a screenwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

, executive producer

Executive producer

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, show creator, and voice actor based in West Hollywood, California

West Hollywood, California

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. Early in his career, Blitt was a writer on The Parent Hood, The Jeff Foxworthy Show

The Jeff Foxworthy Show

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, The Jon Stewart Show

The Jon Stewart Show

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, On the Record with Bob Costas

On the Record with Bob Costas

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, Costas Now

Costas Now

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, and Brotherly Love. In 1999, he became the co-executive producer and a screenwriter for the animated show Family Guy

Family Guy

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. In 2005, Ricky Blitt wrote the screenplay of The Ringer. In 2007, he created and was the producer of The Winner

The Winner (TV series)

The Winner, stylized on the title card as the winner, is an American television series that premiered on Fox on March 4, 2007. It is a comedy about a successful man named Glen Abbott looking back to the time when he was in his thirties and living with his parents in 1994 Buffalo, New York.Other...

. Blitt also owns the production company "Candy Bar Productions". He voiced Steve Smith

Steve Smith (American Dad!)

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 in the pilot episode for the animated show American Dad!

American Dad!

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, but was replaced by Scott Grimes

Scott Grimes

Scott Richard Grimes is an American actor, voice artist and singer. Some of his most prominent roles are his appearances in ER as Dr. Archie Morris, Party of Five as Will McCorkle, Band of Brothers as Technical Sergeant Donald Malarkey, and the popular animated sitcom American Dad!, voicing Steve...

 in the actual series.

In 2010, he created a TV series, Romantically Challenged

Romantically Challenged

Romantically Challenged is a comedy television series, which ran on ABC from April 19, 2010 to May 17, 2010. It is set in Pittsburgh and created by Ricky Blitt, who is also the show's head writer. The show stars Alyssa Milano. ABC officially canceled the series on May 16, 2010...

starring Alyssa Milano

Alyssa Milano

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, which ran from April 19, 2010 to May 17, 2010 on ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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.

Personal life

Blitt is Canadian, raised in Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec

Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec

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, a municipality on the Island of Montreal

Island of Montreal

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. He is a graduate of McGill University

McGill University

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 and attended the AFI Conservatory

AFI Conservatory

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. His older brother is magazine illustrator Barry Blitt.