Bob Daily is an American television producer and screenwriter. Currently he serves as executive producer of Desperate Housewives, and second-in-command to showrunner Marc Cherry.
Beginning as a writer for the 1990s Nickelodeon cartoon Rugrats, Daily joined the crew of the sitcom Frasier in 1999. In total he wrote or co-wrote fifteen episodes of the series and was also one of the show's producers during its last years. After Frasier concluded in 2004, Daily joined fellow Frasier writers Joe Keenan and Christopher Lloyd as a co-executive producer on their short lived sitcom Out of Practice.
In 2006 Daily, as well as Keenan, joined Desperate Housewives as a producer and writer. Following Keenan's departure from the show in 2007, Daily was promoted executive producer of the show, starting with the first episode of the fourth season.
Bob Daily is the husband of Television Publicist Janet Daily and the father of two (Emma Daily, 13, and Owen Daily, 10).
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