Neil Landau's writing credits include "Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead," "Melrose Place," "The Magnificent Seven," "Doogie Howser, M.D.," "MTV’s Undressed," and one-hour drama pilots for CBS, ABC, Freeform, Warner Bros., Disney, Lifetime and Fremantle. He has served as Executive Script Consultant for Sony Pictures Television and Columbia Pictures. Among his animated films are "Tad: The Lost Explorer" (winner of the Spanish Academy "Goya" Award for Best Adapted Screenplay), "Tad Jones and the Secret of King Midas" (winner of the Goya for Best Animated Feature for 2017; Neil is working on the sequel, Tad 3), "Capture the Flag" for Paramount and "Sheep & Wolves" for Wizart Animation. Neil penned the bestselling "101 Things I Learned in Film School," "The Screenwriter’s Roadmap," "The TV Showrunner’s Roadmap" and "TV Outside the Box: Trailblazing in the Digital Television Revolution," which was the first book sponsored by the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE).  Neil is a professor with the M.F.A. screenwriting and producing programs for UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, and also serves as its associate director of screenwriting for television.