Grant Tinker
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Grant Almerin Tinker was an American television executive who was chairman and CEO of NBC from 1981 to 1986. Additionally, he was a co-founder of MTM Enterprises and a television producer.
Tinker at the 64th Annual Peabody Awards, May 2005
James L. Brooks
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James Lawrence Brooks is an American filmmaker. He is the founder of Gracie Films and co-created the sitcoms The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Taxi, as well as co-developed The Simpsons. He also directed
Grant Tinker
…in early 1969. In late 1969, he and then-wife Mary Tyler Moore formed the television production company MTM Enterprises. Tinker hired Room 222 writers James L. Brooks and Allan Burns to create and produce the company's first television series, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Due to conflicts with running MTM, he left Fox…
Brooks in 2007
Brooks won several Emmy Awards for The Mary Tyler Moore Show.