---
name: "Bob Daily"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bob-daily"
fi1m_id: "bob-daily"
imdb_id: "nm0197351"
tmdb_id: 1219605
wikidata_id: "Q4932205"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "23 May 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 83
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-23T11:09:47.056348+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Bob Daily

## Identity

Bob Daily

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/bob-daily
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** bob-daily
- **IMDb ID:** nm0197351
- **TMDB ID:** 1219605
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4932205
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Daily, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4932205, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0197351/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1219605

Writer. Born 23 May 1961.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 23 May 1961
- **Active:** 1993–2004
- **Frequently works with:** [Anne Flett-Giordano](https://film.one/person/anne-flett-giordano.md), [Chuck Ranberg](https://film.one/person/chuck-ranberg.md), [Jeff Melman](https://film.one/person/jeff-melman.md), [Jeffrey Richman](https://film.one/person/jeffrey-richman.md), [Joe Keenan](https://film.one/person/joe-keenan.md), [Lori Kirkland Baker](https://film.one/person/lori-kirkland-baker.md), [Scott Ellis](https://film.one/person/scott-ellis.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 83, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 88 (1), 2000s 78 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Daily, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4932205, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0197351/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1219605

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Frasier*](https://film.one/tv/frasier.md) (88)
- **Disney+:** [*Desperate Housewives*](https://film.one/tv/desperate-housewives.md) (78)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Bob Daily is an American television writer and producer. He began his career as a journalist in Chicago, contributing to publications including Chicago Magazine, Spy, Men's Journal, the Chicago Tribune and the Boston Globe. He graduated from Carleton College in 1982 with a BA in English and later received an MA in English from the University of Chicago.

Daily joined the writing staff of the NBC sitcom *Frasier* in 1999, writing or co-writing fifteen episodes over five seasons and serving in various producer roles. He received two Writers Guild of America Awards for Outstanding Script – Episodic Comedy and an Emmy nomination during his time on the series. Subsequent credits include writing and producing on *Desperate Housewives* (2006–2012), where he rose to executive producer and showrunner for the final season; co-creating and showrunning *Superior Donuts*; and executive producing on series such as the reboot of *The Odd Couple*, *The Wonder Years* (2021) and *Shifting Gears* (2025). He has also worked as a consulting producer on the *Frasier* revival.

*Sources: en.wikipedia-on-ipfs.org, carleton.edu, tableau.uchicago.edu, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Desperate Housewives* (2004), Fi1m 78, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/desperate-housewives.md)
- *Frasier* (1993), Fi1m 88, Writer, Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/frasier.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Shifting Gears* (2025), series, Executive Producer, Writer
- *Frasier* (2023), series, Consulting Producer, Writer
- *The Wonder Years* (2021), series, Writer
- *B Positive* (2020), series, Story, Teleplay
- *Perfect Harmony* (2019), series, Writer
- *Grand Hotel* (2019), series, Writer
- *Superior Donuts* (2017), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
- *The Odd Couple* (2015), series, Writer
- *The Millers* (2013), series, Writer
- *We Are Men* (2013), series, Writer, Executive Producer
- *Out of Practice* (2005), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer
- *Desperate Housewives* (2004), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer, Executive Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/desperate-housewives.md)
- *DiResta* (1998), series, Writer
- *The Wild Thornberrys* (1998), series, Writer
- *Night Stand with Dick Dietrick* (1995), series, Writer
- *Frasier* (1993), series, Writer, Producer, Supervising Producer, Co-Executive Producer, Co-Producer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/frasier.md)
- *Rugrats* (1991), series, Story, Writer

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