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Edward Allen Bernero (born August 29, 1962) is an American television writer, producer, and director. He co-created the series Third Watch and has worked as an executive producer on Criminal Minds. [1] He co-created the spin-off Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, which premiered on February 16, 2011, and was canceled on May 25, 2011, due to low ...
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Edward Allen Bernero is an American television writer and producer.
Born on August 26, 1962, and raised on the north side of Chicago, Bernero became married at seventeen, and spent the first three years of that marriage as an Air Force family in the Philippines (two of his three children were born there).
Bernero became a Chicago Police officer in 1986, and he worked mostly in the 20th District (Foster Avenue), mainly midnights and wrote during the day, for ten years. His last day on the force was August 15, 1996.
On October, he moved to Los Angeles, and by November he had gotten his first job as a TV writer, two episodes of FX: The Series. His next assignment allowed him to meet Steven Bochco and David Milch and was given four episodes of NYPD Blue to write; they too would hire him to the staff of Brooklyn South, which lasted only one season. John Wells then hired him as Story Editor on Trinity. After that collaboration, Wells and Bernero co-created Third Watch, a series that would fed on Bernero's experiences with cops, paramedics and firefighters. During its five year run, Bernero debuted first as director and later as showrunner.
Right away, Bernero joined Criminal Minds once the pilot script was highlighted to film as a possible contender for a spot in the CBS schedule in the fall of 2005, and kept at it until the end of Season Six. It was at that point when he announced his decision to leave the series, following the cancellation of its first spin-off series due to bad ratings. During his time in both Criminal Minds and Suspect Behavior, Bernero served as showrunner, writer and director, and two of his children, Jason and Amanda, were both involved in the mothership show; Jason as writer and production crew member, while Amanda starred as minor recurring character Rebecca Bryant in three episodes and was also a production staff member for other two. Bernero continued to stay on Criminal Minds from Season Seven to Eight as a consultant.
Bernero has written the following episodes of Criminal Minds:
•Season One
•"Plain Sight"
•"The Popular Kids"
•"The Fisher King, part 1"
•Season Two
Nov 28, 2007 · True Night: Directed by Edward Allen Bernero. With Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler. The team heads to LA to investigate a number of brutal killings which turn out to be related to the creator of a graphic novel, Jonny McHale.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Edward Allen Bernero
- 2007-11-28
IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Edward Allen Bernero was born on 29 August 1962 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Third Watch (1999), Criminal Minds (2005) and Crossing Lines (2013). More at IMDbPro. Contact info.
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- Producer, Writer, Additional Crew
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Edward Allen Bernero
Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior: Created by Edward Allen Bernero, Chris Mundy. With Forest Whitaker, Janeane Garofalo, Michael Kelly, Beau Garrett. On the streets of San Francisco a team of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Behavioral Analysis Unit use profiling to catch some of the most horrific serial killers and unidentifiable subjects.
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- 2011-02-16
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Dec 29, 2008 · Criminal Minds' executive producer Edward Allen Bernero offers his opinion on what makes his show a success and details what he looks for when he's hiring a ...
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