Speed Weed is an American

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and producer. He is known for his work on the CBS drama '' NCIS: Los Angeles'',

Greg Berlanti Gregory Berlanti (born May 24, 1972) is an American screenwriter, producer and director of film and television. He is known for his work on the television series ''Dawson's Creek'', '' Brothers & Sisters'', '' Everwood'', '' Political Animals'', ...

's '' Political Animals'', and for Syfy's

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series ''

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''.

Career

Weed got his start penning an episode of the

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drama '' Saved'', starring

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. He went on to work on such series as the CBS' remake ''

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'' and

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's short-lived supernatural drama ''

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'' as writer and story editor, respectively. In 2009, he joined the new CBS series '' NCIS: Los Angeles'' as an executive story editor and writer, scripting three installments ("Random on Purpose", "LD50", and "Fame"). The next season, he departed for

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's long-running legal-crime series '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'', as a co-producer and writer. In summer 2012, writer/producer

brought Weed aboard his

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event series '' Political Animals''. He served as producer and wrote the episodes "Lost Boys" and "Resignation Day". Weed served as a writer on the Syfy drama ''

'' from 2013-2015, penning six episodes in all ("Lost and Found", "Crush", "When the Bough Breaks", "Spotlight", "Much Ado About Mara", "Morbidity"). In summer 2015, Weed joined another series co-created by Berlanti,

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'', as co-executive producer and writer. He first co-wrote the series' third episode of the fourth season, "Restoration", along with co-showrunner

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, and next co-scripted the seventh installment, "Brotherhood", with producer

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. He and co-producer

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wrote the 12th installment of the season, "Unchained". It featured the return of

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Weed, Speed American television writers American male television writers American television producers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) American people of English descent