PALLADINO
Daniel

• 1. Career

Daniel Palladino is an American television executive producer, screenwriter, and director. He is best known for his work on the television series Gilmore Girls (2000–2007) and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017–2023), which earned him a WGA Award, two PGA Awards, and four Primetime Emmy Awards. He has worked on both series with his wife Amy Sherman Palladino.

Career

Palladino began working in series television in 1989, spending three years on the ABC program Who's the Boss? starring Tony Danza, Judith Light and Alyssa Milano. Along with stints as a producer of the David Keith series Flesh 'n' Blood and as a writer for an episode of Cheers, Palladino wrote a half-dozen episodes of The Upper Hand, the British version of Who's The Boss?.

Palladino spent two years in the mid-1990s on Roseanne, serving as a writer, co-executive producer, then executive producer.

In 2000 he began a half-dozen years on Gilmore Girls on the WB Television Network. He wrote and eventually segued into directing. Gilmore Girls was the story of a thirty-something single mom (Lauren Graham) who runs an inn in a small Connecticut town while raising her teenage daughter (Alexis Bledel). Time magazine listing it among the "100 Best TV Shows of All Time". He went on to serve in producing roles on such original series as The Return of Jezebel James and the dance drama Bunheads.

Just prior and for a time concurrent with Gilmore Girls, Palladino was executive producer and showrunner of the Fox animated sitcom Family Guy for its initial two seasons, earning an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Animated Program for its second season. From 2012 to 2013, he returned to Family Guy as a consulting producer.

In 2016, Palladino helped navigate the return of Gilmore Girls, to Netflix, writing and directing two of the four installments for Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. Much of the cast reunited for the four-part mini-series, with each episode tracing the characters' lives across one season: winter, spring, summer and fall. Palladino served as executive producer, writer and director alongside his wife, series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino.

Palladino then served as executive producer on the Amazon Prime Video pilot The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. The series went on to win twenty Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Comedy Series, three Golden Globes and five Critics' Choice Awards, as well as the Peabody and WGA award. He is executive producer, writer, and director of the series' fourth season.