BPS 202: The Art of Showrunning a Hit Amazon Show with Naren Shankar

Naren Shankar is the Executive Producer/Showrunner of the
critically acclaimed television adaptation of the international
best-seller science fiction novel series, The Expanse, an Amazon
Prime Original Series from Alcon Television Studios.

Naren spent eight seasons as a Writer-Executive Producer and Co-
Showrunner of the most-watched show in the world, CSI:Crime Scene
Investigation. In 2011 he helped launch NBC's Grimm as a Writer-
Executive Producer.

Prior to CSI, Naren was an Executive Producer on the SyFy Channel
cult hit series Farscape for The Jim Henson Company, and spent
three seasons as a writer-producer on Showtime's The Outer
Limits.

Naren began his career as a writer and science consultant for Star
Trek: The Next Generation, and he holds a PhD in Applied Physics
& Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

Naren has been honored with multiple Emmy nominations for Best
Series, a WGA Award nomination for CSI's two-hour event "Grave
Danger" directed by Quentin Tarantino, and has received WGC and
Saturn Awards for The Outer Limits, CSI, and Farscape. The Expanse
won a Hugo Award for "Leviathan Wakes" in 2017 and was nominated in
2019 for "Abaddon's Gate."

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