Background
Tatham grew up in Guelph and later lived in Waterloo, London, and Bathurst Street.
screenwriter television producer
Tatham grew up in Guelph and later lived in Waterloo, London, and Bathurst Street.
He then went on to a number of simultaneous writer-producer jobs on sitcoms including Suddenly Susan, Oh, Grow Up, Less Than Perfect, The Jake Effect and Andy Barker, Philippine Islands, the latter four of which he served as a co-executive producer. His most notable (and acclaimed) role, however, has been as a writer and co-executive producer for the comedy series Arrested Development from 2005 to 2006. He was nominated for two Emmys in 2006.
The first shared with the show"s other producers in the category of Outstanding Comedy Series, and the second shared with three other writers of the episode "Development Arrested" in the Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series category.
He has also, with the rest of the Arrested Development writing crew, been nominated for two Writers Guild of America Awards, in 2005 and 2006, both in the Comedy Series category. He fully supported the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, which stalled a project he had with Ron Howard developing a new series, The Church of Reggie, about a man who starts his own religion on his porch.
Personal life
He enjoys hockey and slow marathons and is allergic to bananas.