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Jay Daniel, nan Emmy-winning executive shaper of nan deed 1980s and ’90s TV bid Roseanne, Moonlighting and Cybil, among others, died Wednesday, May 27, successful Los Angeles of a pneumonia-related illness. He was 82.
His decease was announced by his predominant producing partner Glenn Gordon Caron. The origin of decease was reported by Daniel’s wife, Vicky Daniel, to The Hollywood Reporter.
In a station connected X, Caron wrote yesterday, “The was nary ‘Moonlighting’ without Jay Daniel. Probably nary ‘Roseanne.’ Definitely nary ‘Cybil.’ Certainly nary ‘Clean and Sober.’ He was simply nan best. He near america past night. He will beryllium very missed.” (Clean and Sober was nan 1988 characteristic movie play directed by Caron and starring Michael Keaton arsenic a man struggling pinch intoxicant and cocaine addiction.)
Daniel, calved June 1, 1943, successful Cushing, Oklahoma, moved to L.A. to study theatre arts arsenic a UCLA postgraduate student pinch nan volition of being an character – his sole acting in installments was a mini domiciled successful Peter Bogdanovich’s Targets (1968).
By nan mid-1970s, Daniel had shifted gears and was credited arsenic an adjunct head and subordinate shaper connected nan deed bull play Police Story, and, among others, arsenic a shaper of 1979’s detective bid Eischied starring Joe Don Baker. A drawstring of TV movies successful nan early ’80s followed including Power, Once Upon a Spy, For Lovers Only, Cry For Strangers, a Daytime Emmy-winning section of CBS Schoolbreak Special, and successful 1984, a aviator for a newspaper play called Concrete Beat starring John Getz. That task didn’t spell to series, but introduced Daniel to its writer, Caron.
Caron had conscionable been fixed nan greenlight to constitute a detective bid featuring a male-female cardinal romance, and nan writer-producer invited Daniel to subordinate nan producing team. Within months Cybill Shepherd had been formed arsenic a lead, and she’d beryllium paired pinch a then-unknown Bruce Willis for what would go nan deed Emmy-nominated bid Moonlighting. Though nan bid was plagued by specified troubles arsenic missed deadlines and a headline-making feud betwixt nan stars, Moonlighting would stay a celebrated 20th Century Fox show for 5 seasons (1985-89).
Caron, who was famously fired from nan beleaguered Moonlighting, leaving Daniel to worker connected during nan series’ 5th and last season, teamed again pinch nan shaper for Clean and Sober, a movie that featured Keaton successful an early career-expanding melodramatic role.
Daniel would later opportunity that his acquisition connected nan chaotic Moonlighting was nan apt logic ABC recruited him to subordinate nan accumulation squad connected nan likewise besieged Carsey-Werner Productions sitcom Roseanne, starring Roseanne Barr. Daniel joined nan show successful 1990, its 3rd season, and remained until 1994.
The twelvemonth aft he near Roseanne, Daniel convinced his aged Moonlighting prima Shepherd to return to web tv for her ain self-titled sitcom, Cybill, created by Chuck Lorre. The drama featured Shepherd arsenic a twice-divorced mother of 2 still trying to find occurrence arsenic an actress. Cybill would yet triumph 3 Emmy Awards of 12 nominations.
Daniel’s consequent TV producing credits would see ABC’s The Naked Truth (1997) starring Tea Leoni, The WB’s Maybe It’s Me (2001) pinch Julia Sweeney, and ABC’s Hot Properties (2005), a sitcom that included Sofía Vergara successful a pre-Modern Family domiciled and a premise that mixed elements of Designing Women and Sex and nan City. None of Daniel’s later bid approached nan groundbreaking effect of his highest work.
Daniel is survived by woman Vicky Daniel. Complete accusation connected survivors was not instantly available.
The was nary "Moonlighting" without Jay Daniel.
Probably nary "Roseanne"
Definitely nary "Cybil"
Certainly nary "Clean and Sober"
He was simply nan best.
He near america past night. He will beryllium very missed.
