American television producer, screenwriter, and director
Daniel Palladino is an American television executive producer, screenwriter, and director. He is best known for his work on the television series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017–2023), which earned him a WGA Award, two PGA Awards, and four Primetime Emmy Awards.
Palladino spent two years in the mid-1990s on Roseanne, serving as a writer, co-executive producer, then executive producer.[1]
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).[2]Time magazine listing it among the "100 Best TV Shows of All Time".[3] He went on to serve in producing roles on such original series as The Return of Jezebel James and the dance drama Bunheads.[2]
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.[2]
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.[2]
He won the WGA Award in 2019 in the category Comedy Series for his work on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel alongside Amy Sherman-Palladino, Kate Fodor, Noah Gardenswartz, Daniel Goldfarb, Jen Kirkman, and Sheila R. Lawrence. He received a nomination in 2020 alongside Amy Sherman-Palladino, Kate Fodor, Noah Gardenswartz, Daniel Goldfarb, Alison Leiby, Sono Patel, and Jordan Temple.[7]
Palladino won a Peabody Award along with Amy Sherman-Palladino in the Entertainment category for first season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel in 2017.[8]