Daniel S. Miller

Daniel S. Miller

Showrunner.
Director.
Entrepreneur.

Daniel S. Miller is a showrunner, director, and media executive with over twenty years of experience building original content for broadcast, streaming, and digital platforms. He started as an unpaid intern, learned the industry without a map, and built a career making exceptional work with talented people across six continents.

He has developed and sold original series to Discovery, National Geographic, PBS, and MAX, led productions from concept through delivery, and co-founded a creator-led streaming network distributed across Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, and Samsung TV Plus. Most people in this space have done one of those things. He has done all three.

Selected work

Discovery / MotorTrend

Texas Metal

Seasons 1 through 7. Seventy-eight episodes following Bill Carlton and the Ekstensive Metal Works crew building custom vehicles in Houston. One of MotorTrend's longest-running original series.

EP / Showrunner

National Geographic / Esquire

Going Deep with David Rees

Two seasons across National Geographic and Esquire Network. A critically acclaimed comedy-documentary series in which artisanal activity expert David Rees explores the hidden complexity of everyday tasks.

EP / Showrunner

Discovery Channel

Build It Bigger

A long-running series exploring the world's most ambitious engineering and construction projects. Filmed across six continents.

Co-EP / Showrunner

PBS Independent Lens

The Great Pink Scare

A feature documentary examining the McCarthy-era persecution of gay federal employees, one of the largest mass firings in American history. Broadcast nationally on PBS.

Director / Producer

In development

Current project

An Ordinary Street

A feature documentary following Kirra Miller, Daniel's niece, as she attempts to do what most people take for granted: leave home. Struck by a driver in a crosswalk as a toddler, Kirra uses a wheelchair and navigates a world not built for her. As she plans her first independent move, the film examines what independence actually costs when the city itself is the obstacle.

Shot across San Diego, Toronto, and Florida. In production.

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