In June 2013, the series was honored, along with five others, with the Critics' Choice Television Award for Most Exciting New Series.
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It was developed by Michelle Ashford and based on Thomas Maier's biography Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love.
Debby Applegate described the biography as "a terrific book about the unlikely couple who touched off the sexual revolution. More than a biography, this is an intimate history of sex in the twentieth century."
His book Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love is the basis for the award winning drama Masters of Sex which premiered on Showtime in 2013.
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Bensinger moved from features to TV in the late nineties and has written on numerous shows including The Pretender, Beverly Hills, 90210, Titans, "Going to California", Dragnet, Cold Case, "Justice", "Viva Laughlin", Harper's Island, "Parenthood", "Prime Suspect", "Masters of Sex" and "Nashville".