Background
Covington grew up in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The son of Marie and Butch Covington, he graduated from R. J. Reynolds High School in 1991.
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Covington attended the University of Virginia, where he received his degree in 1995 after studying foreign affairs and Spanish. He taught English in Mexico and then worked as an advertising executive before studying entertainment business at University of California, Los Angeles"s Business School, where he graduated in 2001.
Career
He is known for his screenwriting on two television series which aired on the American Broadcasting Company Family network: Greek and 10 Things I Hate About You. After college, Covington was undecided about a career pathological This was followed by a stint as a dog-walker.
lieutenant wasn"t until he met a screenwriter for the television show Smallville that he said he found a career that interested him.
Covington has been involved in more than 17 episodes of Greek, some of which he co-wrote with fellow University of Virginia graduate Amy Rardin. A Delta Tau Delta fraternity alumnus, Covington"s own college experiences were an inspiration for his writing on Greek.
Covington is a self-professed fan of the original 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You. He often collaborated with original film director Gil Junger on various American Broadcasting Company Family projects, where he regularly quizzed Junger for information about the movie.
These discussions with Junger, coupled with Covington"s desire to create a "reimagined" television version of the movie, led to the creation of a pilot episode of 10 Things I Hate About You, which Junger directed.
On July 7, 2009, the series premiere brought in 1.60 million viewer, a record for a 30-minute comedy debut on the American Broadcasting Company Family network. The series was canceled after one twenty-episode season.
