John Shiban

 wrote and co-executive produced the Torchwood stories Escape to LA and The Middle Men.

He has regularly written and produced American television programmes since his initial job as one of the key above the line crew members on most of the run of ' and its spin-off, '. Indeed, his work on The X-Files twice earned him an Emmy Award nomination, one for producing and one for writing.

Following the demise of both those shows, he joined the writer's room on  for its, on which he was also a co-executive producer. He notably wrote the episode , which featured Emmy Award-nominated make-up by future Miracle Day make-up head, Todd McIntosh. This association with Enterprise allows him to join Jane Espenson as one of only two people to write for both the Doctor Who and the Star Trek franchises on television.

From Enterprise, he moved on to the short-lived, and then to a much longer association with the show , where he held several titles and wrote several episodes across the first three years of that show's run. He then moved over to for a year before landing on his next major project, , for which he has been thrice-nominated for a  Award. Just prior to working on Torchwood, he worked on.