Randall Winston
Randall Keenan Winston is a television producer and director best known for his work on Spin City and Scrubs.
Career
He has been an associate producer on such shows as Champs, Day By Day, Brooklyn Bridge and Spin City. He produced Scrubs, and was co-nominated with Bill Lawrence in 2004 for Danny Thomas Producer of the Year by the Producers Guild of America. He has twice been Emmy nominated. He produced the pilots Nobody's Watching and Confessions of a Dog. He has also directed two episodes of Scrubs, My Self-Examination and My Buddy's Booty, and has appeared in episodes of the show as Leonard the security guard and Death. He is currently a producer on Lawrence's new show Cougar Town. For the ninth season of Scrubs he acts as co-executive producer.
Personal life
He grew up in Harvey, Illinois, and graduated from Ohio University in 1989. He is good friends with Scrubs creator and Spin City co-creator Bill Lawrence, with whom he has worked on most of his projects. Lawrence says his and Winston's friendship was the inspiration for the friendship of J.D. and Turk on Scrubs and Stuart and Carter on Spin City. The character Randall Winston on Spin City was named after him, as was the character Randall, played by Martin Klebba, on Scrubs. He is the inspiration for the character of Carter Heywood on Spin City. He is openly gay and lives with his partner in Los Angeles. He is a member of the board of the Lupus Foundation of America.
Spin City
Spin City is an American television sitcom that aired from September 17, 1996, until April 30, 2002, on ABC. Created by Gary David Goldberg and Bill Lawrence, the show was based on a fictional local government running New York City, and originally starred Michael J. Fox as Mike Flaherty, the Deputy Mayor of New York. Fox departed in 2000 at the conclusion of Season 4 due to his battle with Parkinson's disease: Charlie Sheen assumed the lead role of Charlie Crawford for the remaining two seasons. The show was cancelled in 2002 due to low ratings.
Premise
The series focuses on the Mayor of New York City, Randall Winston (Barry Bostwick), and his staff as they run the city—although the main person in charge is Deputy Mayor Mike Flaherty (Fox). Mike is excellent at his job, dealing with spin and lies, but not so good with his personal life, which he often neglects. Other members of staff at City Hall include press secretary Paul Lassiter (Richard Kind), the office cheapskate, suck-up, and noted coward, who has a habit of being a loudmouth and is often kept in the dark about things; chief of staff Stuart Bondek (Alan Ruck), who loves the ladies, and is often very sexist; and head of minority affairs Carter Heywood (Michael Boatman), a gay black man with a suicidal dog named Rags.
List of Scrubs characters
The following is a list of characters from the NBC/ABCAmerican comedy-drama Scrubs.
Character appearance summary
Main characters
John Michael Dorian (J.D.)
Zach Braff portrays Dr. John Michael "J.D." Dorian, the show's original protagonist and narrator. J.D. begins the series as a staff intern, progressing to resident and then attending physician. His voice-over to the series comes from his internal thoughts and often features surreal fantasies. J.D. was a recurring character in Season 9, though he was still considered to be the protagonist of the episodes in which he appeared. Braff received top billing as a main cast member in each of his appearances for that season. He did not appear in the last episode of the series, titled "Our Thanks," and no mention was made of him.
J.D.'s name is based on that of Dr. Jonathan Doris, a college friend of series creator Bill Lawrence. Doris served as medical adviser to the show.
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