David Rogers is an American

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and producer best known for working on ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. In 2007, he received the

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Picture Editing for a Single-Camera Comedy Series is an award given at the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards. This award and Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series replaced Outstan ...

for his work on ''The Office's '' third season finale, " The Job", which he shared with

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and another Emmy for the series finale, "

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", which he shared with Claire Scanlon.

Professional background

Rogers began his career as an assistant editor on a variety of sitcoms throughout the mid-to-late 1990s and into the 2000s. These shows included ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

''. He first worked as a senior editor on the ''Seinfeld'' episode ''

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'' in 1998. Since then he has edited on comedies such as ''

'', ''

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'', '' The Comeback'' and ''

'', as well as 95 broadcast episodes of ''

''. He started directing episodes of ''The Office'' in season 5, and at the beginning of the sixth season, Rogers became an associate producer on the series. He attained the rank of co-producer beginning with seventh season. Rogers worked as a Supervising Producer/Editor/Director on the romantic sitcom ''

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'' from 2013 to 2017, and was part of the production team that transitioned to Hulu after the show was canceled by FOX after three seasons. As

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was launching their streaming service

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, Rogers pitched the idea to include footage and promotional materials that would traditionally be included on DVD copies as bonus materials. This later became the impetus for the creation of the Peacock-exclusive "Superfan" episodes of

, in which Rogers has edited additional footage and deleted scenes along with the original broadcast episodes to create extended versions of some episodes.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

Rogers was nominated by the

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five times for his editing work on

, winning one Prime-Time Emmy for each of the episodes " The Job" in 2007 and " The Finale" in 2013. Rogers also won two American Cinema Editors "Eddie" Awards for these episodes.

References

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