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Sep 13, 2013 · In honor of the 20th anniversary of THE X-FILES, I spoke with some of the television writers who have mentioned to me that they have been influenced by THE X-FILES to dig deeper into why this show resonated with them. Next up? Former ALIAS and FRINGE showrunner Jeff Pinkner… When did you start watching THE X-FILES?
Sep 23, 2010 · Ed Gross of ComicBookMovie.com has an exclusive interview with Fringe executive producers Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman on the writing and evolution of the series. One of the important elements of the Fringe storytelling is the evolution of the "Myth-alone" - a hybrid of a stand-alone episode and a mythology episode:
Life and career. Born to a Jewish family, [1] Pinkner graduated from Pikesville High School in Baltimore, Maryland in 1983, Northwestern University in 1987, and Harvard Law School in 1990. [citation needed] He is known for his work on Alias where he served as executive producer. In 2006 and 2007, he worked as an executive producer and writer ...
- November 16, 1964 (age 58)
- 1996–present
- Jeffrey Pinkner
- American
May 20, 2016 · Alias: How Jack Bristow went out with a bang. A decade after the finale, EW looks back on Jack's death with Victor Garber and EP Jeff Pinkner. By Kelly Connolly. Published on May 20, 2016. Photo: ABC.
- in The Beginning…
- “Tremendous Conflict”
- Developing “The End”
- “It Was Never Designed to Answer Everything”
- Reckoning with “The End” and The Hereafter
Today, the flashback-reliant narrative of Lost wouldn’t be a dramatically new way to tell stories on broadcast television. But in 2004, it was noticeable and not just because it cleverly freed the series to leave the clutches of the island. “It was an amazing pilotand then, at the end of the pilot, everybody went ‘Oh God—what do we do now? Survival...
Network television, particularly in the early 2000s, was built around the idea of finding something that the audience likes and giving it to them over and over. (Lost debuted on the very same day as CSI: NY,for Jacob’s sake.) Whatever pleasure centers a particular show tickles, it should tickle with every episode as much as possible. At least, that...
From the very beginning of the show’s development, the Lost title was meant to have a double meaning. Yes, the characters themselves were physically lost in the world on this mysterious island. But, more crucially, they were each spiritually lost in their own lives. The show always tried to remain true to the characters and, by the end, to some spi...
Lost arrived in 2004 at the very first moment when audience feedback became a real-time consideration with the advent of the internet. That development—which fueled rabid online viewer speculation, passionate globally connected fan communities, and real-time discussions between creators and audiences—helped transform Lost into a phenomenon from the...
Beyond the tens of millions of viewers Lost entertained each week, beyond the tens of millions of dollars Lost spent on its blockbuster episodes, the core of the series was always an inclusive exploration of humanity and our own search for meaning in a vast and overwhelming world. To portray that ideal, Lost needed to portray the real world as it i...
Sep 23, 2011 · JEFF PINKNER: Fans around the world stunningly put together this video piece Where is Peter Bishop?, on their own and totally outside of our purview, literally making signs and taking...
Feb 4, 2022 · From (Epix) February 4, 2022 @ 1:03 PM. “Lost” producers Jack Bender and Jeff Pinkner are back with the twisty new mystery series “From,” which debuts Feb. 20 on Epix. Instead of stranding ...