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{{short description|American television writer|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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| caption     = Buck at the 2013 [[San Diego Comic-Con]]
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| occupation  = Writer and [[Film producer|producer]]
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'''Scott Randall Buck''' is an American television writer. Buck has written for several television series including ''[[Six Feet Under (TV series)|Six Feet Under]]'', ''[[Rome (TV series)|Rome]]'', [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]]'s ''[[Dexter (TV series)|Dexter]]'', ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]'', ''[[Coach (TV series)|Coach]]'', ''[[Inhumans (TV series)|Inhumans]]'', ''[[The Oblongs]]'' and ''[[Iron Fist (TV series)|Iron Fist]]''.
==Career==
Buck began his career as a sitcom writer. He joined the staff of [[HBO]]'s ''[[Six Feet Under (TV series)|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 [[Peabody Award]] 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 ''[[Rome (TV series)|Rome]]'' 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 (TV network)|Showtime]]'s ''[[Dexter (TV series)|Dexter]]'' 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 [[Writers Guild of America Awards 2007|2008]], [[Writers Guild of America Awards 2008|2009]] and [[Writers Guild of America Awards 2009|2010]], ''Dexter'' was nominated for a [[Writers Guild of America Awards|Writers Guild of America Award]] for Best Dramatic Series (with the writing team including Buck credited on the nomination) but lost to ''[[The Wire]]'' and ''[[Mad Men]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|author1=Mitchel, Gregg |author2=Goldman, Sherry |url=http://wga.org/subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=2653#TheWireHBO |title=2008 Writers Guild Awards Television & Radio Nominees Announced |accessdate=December 13, 2007 |publisher=[[Writers Guild of America]]|year=2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071219203806/http://www.wga.org/subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=2653 |archivedate=December 19, 2007 |df=mdy }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117977607.html#TheWireHBO|title=WGA announce TV, radio nominees|accessdate=December 13, 2007|newspaper=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]| first=Byron | last=Perry | date=December 12, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|author=DiOrio, Carl|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hbo-tops-wga-awards-list-157039|title=HBO tops WGA awards list with five noms|accessdate=December 13, 2007|magazine=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|author1=Mitchel, Gregg |author2=Goldman, Sherry |url=http://wga.org/content/default.aspx?id=3410 |title=2009 Writers Guild Awards Television, Radio, News, Promotional Writing, and Graphic Animation Nominees Announced |accessdate=December 12, 2008 |publisher=Writers Guild of America|year=2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081212052838/http://www.wga.org/content/default.aspx?id=3410 |archivedate=December 12, 2008 |df=mdy }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |author1=Mitchel, Gregg |author2=Goldman, Sherry |url= http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1516 |title= 2010 Writers Guild Awards Television, Radio, News, Promotional Writing, and Graphic Animation Nominees Announced |accessdate= April 30, 2010 |publisher= Writers Guild of America |year=2009 |archiveurl= https://archive.today/20120525035829/http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1516 |archivedate= May 25, 2012 |url-status= dead |df=mdy }}</ref> Buck was promoted to [[showrunner]] in season six of ''Dexter'', and served in that role for the show's last three seasons.<ref>{{Cite web|author= Ng, Philiana|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/dexter-renewed-two-more-seasons-263593|title='Dexter' Renewed for Two More Seasons|accessdate=March 2, 2019|magazine=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]}}</ref>
In December 2015, Buck was hired to serve as [[showrunner]] and executive producer for the [[Marvel Television|Marvel]] and [[Netflix]] television series ''[[Iron Fist (TV series)|Iron Fist]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://marvel.com/news/tv/25516/scott_buck_to_showrun_the_netflix_original_series_marvels_iron_fist |title=Scott Buck to Showrun the Netflix Original Series 'Marvel's Iron Fist' |last=Strom |first=Marc |publisher=[[Marvel.com]] |date=December 7, 2015 |accessdate=December 7, 2015 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20151208100509/http://marvel.com/news/tv/25516/scott_buck_to_showrun_the_netflix_original_series_marvels_iron_fist |archivedate=December 8, 2015 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref>  In December 2016, Buck was named showrunner and executive producer for the [[Marvel Television|Marvel]], [[IMAX Corporation]], and [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] television series ''[[Inhumans (TV series)|Inhumans]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/marvels-inhumans-sets-dexter-grad-as-showrunner-947311|title=Marvel's 'Inhumans' Sets 'Dexter' Grad as Showrunner (Exclusive)|magazine=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|last=Goldberg|first=Lesley|date=December 6, 2016}}</ref> ''Inhumans'' premiered in September 2017, and ran for one season of a planned three before cancellation.<ref>{{Cite web|author=Danielle Turchiano|url=https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/inhumans-canceled-abc-deception-the-crossing-kevin-probably-saves-the-world-1202802149/|title=‘Inhumans,’ ‘Deception,’ ‘The Crossing,’ ‘Kevin Probably Saves the World’ Canceled by ABC|newspaper=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref> Both ''Iron Fist'' and ''Inhumans'' received overwhelmingly negative reviews.<ref>{{Cite web|author= Lam, Jamie|url=https://www.scmp.com/yp/discover/entertainment/movies/article/3065985/inhumans-beats-iron-fist-being-marvels-worst|title='Inhumans' beats 'Iron Fist' in being Marvel's worst television series by far [Review]|date=September 1, 2017|magazine=[[South China Morning Post]]}}</ref>
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