Rex Sikes' Movie Beat

Jeff Greenstein, Director.  His first job was on the HBO series Dream On, and he stayed with that show for five seasons, garnering several industry awards including a CableACE.  Then he signed on for the first year of NBC's Friends, earning two Emmy nominations, one for co-writing the show's first Thanksgiving episode. He co-created Fox's late, lamented Partners, starring Jon Cryer and Tate Donovan, which won critical plaudits After that, he joined the staff of NBC's Will & Grace early in its inaugural year.  He spent six years as a head writer and the fifth and sixth seasons as showrunner, picking up an Emmy for Best Comedy Series, six nominations, and a writing nomination (the only one in the show's history) for the one-hour flashback episode "Lows in the Mid-Eighties." After leaving Will & Grace, he joined the ABC's Desperate Housewives and remained for three seasons and was part of the team credited with the show's creative resurgence. Then, after a year spent launching NBC's acclaimed series Pare