According to Jim  (Season Premiere Tuesday, December 2, 9:00-9:30 p.m., ET)

WARREN BELL, executive producer
Warren Bell began his career in sitcom television 16 years ago, and has been a big part of such hits as "Coach," "Ellen" and "Off Centre." He also created the comedy series "Life's Work." In 2003 he started working on "According to Jim," and became executive producer in 2006. Bell was raised in Allentown, PA and attended New York University, earning his BFA in Television. Currently he resides in Los Angeles.

SUZANNE BUKINIK, executive producer
Suzanne Bukinik began her career at ABC in 1993 as manager of Current Series, overseeing "Home Improvement" and "Coach." In 1997 she was promoted to vice president, Comedy Programming, a position she held through the 1999-2000 season. During her tenure she helped develop "Sports Night," "The Hughleys" and "My Wife and Kids." In early 2000 she signed a multi-year overall deal with Touchstone Television to produce original series. "According to Jim" was her first project under the deal. Raised in New York City, Bukinik attended the High School of Performing Arts. She received a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University and currently resides in Los Angeles.

MARC GURVITZ, executive producer
In 1996 Marc Gurvitz was named co-president of the Brillstein-Grey Entertainment (BGE) Management Division, overseeing day-to-day operations. He also serves as executive vice president of BGE, where he is involved in the company's production entities. Since joining BGE in 1986, he has managed film and television clients, including Jim Belushi, Jennifer Aniston, Bill Maher, Gary Sinise, Dennis Miller, Norm Macdonald, David Spade, Catherine O'Hara, Heather Locklear, Greg Kinnear and Ed O'Neill, and was instrumental in the packaging of both "Wayne's World" movies. Gurvitz served as executive producer of "The Cable Guy," starring Jim Carrey, and executive-produced the late-night talk show "Politically Incorrect." He is also one of the executive producers of "Real Time with Bill Maher" on HBO. Born and raised in New York, he currently resides in Malibu, California.

JOHN D. BECK & RON HART, executive producers
John D. Beck and Ron Hart met at Syracuse University in the early nineties. Beck was a freshman who thought Hart threw cool parties, and Hart was a senior who thought Beck was a freshman who kept showing up to parties he wasn't invited to.

Upon graduating, the two took widely differing paths on their way to becoming sitcoms writers. Beck served on the production staffs of several network sitcoms, while Hart served as a maid, house sitter and cab driver to gain his Kerouac experience while waiting for his giant overall deal to come along. It didn't, so he started writing specs with Beck. Fifteen years after meeting, they are now executive producers on a major network TV show and can officially look back and laugh at Hart's many missteps.

They have served on the writing staff of "According to Jim" for the last six years. Before that, Hart and Beck worked as writers on "The Hughleys," as well as selling a variety of freelance episodes of shows on such networks as MTV, Nickelodeon and Fox Family Channel. In addition to their work on "According to Jim," Hart and Beck also have written books, and continue to develop with ABC Studios.

Hart would like to add that he is also a proud member of the Six Million Dollar Man Bionic Action Club.

JUDD PILLOT & JOHN PEASLEE, executive producers
Judd Pillot and John Peaslee have been writing/producing partners for over 20 years. They met in New York, producing news and documentaries, first for Newsweek, then for PBS and HBO. After making films all over the world, the team made the switch to Hollywood and comedy, writing and producing "Coach" for five years, and running it for their last two on the show. They've created several series, including "Blue Skies" (ABC), "A Whole New Ballgame" (ABC), "Something So Right" (NBC/ABC) -- for which they won the Humanitas prize -- "Payne" (CBS) and an Americanization of "Fawlty Towers," starring John Laroquette.

In addition to "According to Jim," Pillot and Peaslee have executive-produced such other shows as "Mad About You," "Just Shoot Me" and "Eight Simple Rules." Over the years they have been honored with the Emmy, Peabody and Cable Ace Awards, and have been nominated for both the Writers Guild and the Directors Guild Awards.

Judd Pillot is a New Jersey native and a graduate Boston University. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Karen, and their sons, Jacob and Nicholas. John Peaslee is from New York and a graduate of Northwestern University. He and his wife, Dava Waite, live in Los Angeles. John has a daughter, Rebecca.