Rick Rosner

[4] He was an executive with Warner Bros. before NBC named him its Vice President of Variety Programming in 1975.

[5] Rosner wrote several TV movies before creating the central characters and developing the core format of the series CHiPs, about two California Highway Patrol motorcycle cops and the district out of which they worked.

In 2005, a CHiPs film was announced, with Wilmer Valderrama attached to star and Rosner executive producing.

[6] Aside from CHiPs, Rosner also created the central characters and developed the core format of Lottery!

With affiliates pre-empting the show in droves, it too suffered a short life, ending seven months later in January 1994.