[2] Collins and the writing staff won the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2008 ceremony for their work on the fourth season.
[7] He wrote the teleplay for the third episode of the fifth season "Not for Attribution" from a story he co-wrote with show runner and executive producer David Simon.
Mazzara, Collins and the majority of the writing staff left the series at the end of the first season.
Collins was hired as a co-producer and writer for the second season of FX crime drama Sons of Anarchy in fall 2009.
Sons of Anarchy showrunner and executive producer Kurt Sutter had previously worked with Mazzara on The Shield.