Richard Timothy "Tim" Kring (born July 9, 1957 in El Dorado County, California, United States) is an American screenwriter and television producer. He has created three TV shows that have seen varying degrees of success: Strange World, Crossing Jordan, and Heroes. He graduated from the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 1983.
He got his start as a screenwriter writing for the TV show Knight Rider. One of his earlier projects was Misfits of Science, which, like his later project Heroes, featured superpowered humans as a main theme. Another early project was Teen Wolf Too, co-written by Jeph Loeb. The two would later re-team when producing Heroes.
"Shows like "Lost" (2004), "24" (2001), and even non-genre shows like "Grey's Anatomy" (2005) and "Desperate Housewives" (2004) have all helped to make serialization popular again in television."
