Tim Burns (writer)

Tim Burns is a Canadian writer and producer for Canadian and American television; more popularly known as the show runner/executive producer of the Teletoon-Disney Channel shared, supernatural comedy-drama series, My Babysitter's a Vampire and for writing its TV pilot film. He was also supervising writer of the third season of Crank Yankers and was a composer on The Sunny Side Up Show.

Career

Tim Burns began his writing career writing an episode of The Jim Henson Hour in 1989, two years later he created the sketch comedy The Idiot Box with Alex Winter and Tom Stern. He portrayed Frogman in the movie Freaked, also wrote the soundtracks "Wienerschnitzel Polka", and "Freekz!" That's What They Call Us!, along with writing and performing the song "Pick-A-Freek". Burns wrote two episodes of Blackfly and was supervising producer for one episode.

Burns also began composing in 1996 with Hello Mrs. Cherrywinkle, and other shows like The Good Night Show, Saul of the Mole Men, and The Sunny Side Up Show from 2007 until 2009. He also worked on soundtracks for Nancy Nancy, Young Person's Guide to History. Burns wrote an episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars in 2008, "Destroy Malevolence". In 2010 he wrote the teleplay and story for the Teletoon TV movie, My Babysitter's a Vampire, when the movie became a series, he became executive producer of the series and wrote the series premiere episode along with two other episodes so far.

Filmography

Year(s)	Show(s) / Movie(s)	Occupation(s)	Notes
1989	The Jim Henson Hour	Writer	Episode: "Dog City"
1989–1990	The Sweet Life	Writer	All episodes
1991	The Idiot Box	Writer and Creator	Episode: "The Best of the Idiot Box"
1993	Freaked	Writer Acting role Soundtrack	Portrayed Frogman Writer: "Wienerschnitzel Polka", "Freekz!" That's What They Call Us!, "Pick-A-Freek". Performer: "Pick-A-Freek"
1996	Hello Mrs. Cherrywinkle	Composer
1997	An American Werewolf in Paris	Writer
1999	The Chimp Channel	Writer & co-executive producer
	Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang	Writer
2000	Canadian Comedy Awards		Himself
2001–2002	Blackfly	Writer Supervising writer	2 episodes: "Kettles from the Land of Cool Stuff" & "The Love of the Game" 1 episode: "Surprise"
2004	Geraldine's Fortune	Writer
2005	Crank Yankers	Supervising writer	Season 3
	The Good Night Show	Composer
2006	Nancy Nancy	Soundtrack	Performer: "Night Games", "Moonlight & Magic"
2007	Saul of the Mole Men	Composer	16 episodes: "Blood Is Thicker Than Walter", "Finger of Fate or the Fateful Finger", "Fun King", "Work the Sack", "Moustache Ride", "What's Happening Down There?", "IC-CAWWWW!", "Hammer in His Hand", "Children of Embers Blaze", "Faster Robot! Upload! Upload!", "Girly", "Saul Comes Back", "Spare Me My Beets", "Village of the Damned Dolls", "Poor Clancy's Almanack", and "Saul-id Rock"
2007–2009	The Sunny Side Up Show	Composer
2008	Star Wars: The Clone Wars	Writer	Episode: "Destroy Malevolence"
	Young Person's Guide to History	Soundtrack	Writer: "Moustache Ride"
2010	My Babysitter's a Vampire	Writer, Teleplay & Story
	Spliced	Writer	Episode: "Best Before Date/Stompabout"
2011–2012	My Babysitter's a Vampire	Executive Producer Writer	Episodes: "Lawn of the Dead", "The Brewed", "Welcome Back Dusker", "The Date to End All Dates (Part 1)" (story)

External links

• Tim Burns at the Internet Movie Database