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Tom Fontana (born September 12, 1951) is an American screenwriter, writer, and television producer. Fontana worked on NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street and created HBO's Oz.
In his three-and-a-half-hour interview, Tom Fontana talks about his early life, being a theater major in college, and deciding he wanted to be a writer. He describes being "discovered" by Bruce Paltrow and Blythe Danner, which led to him writing for the critically acclaimed NBC series St. Elsewhere.
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Writing the first eight episodes entirely by himself, Fontana took the world of 'edgy' TV one step farther with 'Oz' (1997-2003), a show which has featured quality actors like Rita Moreno, Ernie...
May 22, 2003 · Tom Fontana is executive producer and writer of HBO's Oz, the realistic drama about life in an experimental unit of a maximum-security prison. Fontana also created Homicide: Life on...
Dec 5, 2018 · By Dave McNary. Patrick Lewis/Starpix/REX/Shutterstock. Tom Fontana, creator of “Oz” and “Homicide: Life on the Street,” will be honored with the Writers Guild of America East ’s Ian McLellan...
Feb 21, 2012 · Of the many writers who helped change U.S. TV drama in the 1980s, allowing it to incorporate serialized story arcs and offer more complicated characters, Tom Fontana has led one of the richest...
Oct 19, 2012 · Sunday night at ten, BBC America will air the first season finale of the just-renewed Copper, the Tom Fontana– and Barry Levinson–produced drama set in the crime-ridden world of 1864 New York.
