Scott Randall Buck is an American television writer. Buck has written for several television series including '' Six Feet Under'', ''

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'', Showtime's ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Coach'', ''

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'', '' The Oblongs'' and '' Iron Fist''.

Career

Buck began his career as a sitcom writer. He joined the staff of

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's '' Six Feet Under'' as a writer and supervising producer in 2002 for the show's second season. He wrote the second season episode "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year". He remained a supervising producer for the third season in 2003 and wrote two further episodes "You Never Know" and "Everyone Leaves". He was promoted to co-executive producer for the fourth season in 2004. He wrote two more episodes "That's My Dog" and "Bomb Shelter". He was nominated for both an individual WGA award, as well as WGA awards for Best Writing Staff. He received a

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for his work on ''Six Feet Under''. He remained a co-executive producer for the fifth and final season in 2005 and contributed two more episodes – "Dancing for Me" and "Singing For Our Lives". He contributed seven episodes to the series in total. Buck worked as a co-executive producer on the second season of HBO's ''

'' in 2007. He wrote two episodes for the series ("These Being the Words of Marcus Tullius Cicero" and "Death Mask") before it was canceled. He moved on to work as a co-executive producer and writer on the second season of Showtime's ''

'' later in 2007, remaining as a co-executive producer for the third season in 2008, and an executive producer for the fourth season in 2009. In

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and

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, ''Dexter'' was nominated for a

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for Best Dramatic Series (with the writing team including Buck credited on the nomination) but lost to ''

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'' and ''

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''. Buck was promoted to

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in season six of ''Dexter'', and served in that role for the show's last three seasons. In December 2015, Buck was hired to serve as

and executive producer for the

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and

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television series '' Iron Fist''. In December 2016, Buck was named showrunner and executive producer for the

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, and ABC television series ''

''. ''Inhumans'' premiered in September 2017, and ran for one season of a planned three before cancellation. Both ''Iron Fist'' and ''Inhumans'' received overwhelmingly negative reviews.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Buck, Scott Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) American male television writers American showrunners American television writers American television producers