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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. [1]
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.
Oct 9, 2019 · Today’s podcast is a conversation with Tom Fontana, ground zero in the explosion of this golden age of television. Tom served as executive producer of St. Elsewhere , Executive Producer and Showrunner of Homicide : Life on the Streets, and Creator and Executive Producer of the first prestige drama of the cable television era, Oz.
Jun 6, 2017 · It was created by Tom Fontana while he was still writing his other show, Homicide: Life on the Street, and was the first ever hour-long cable drama.
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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 the...
Involved in its inception were two top TV showrunners, Law & Order creator and executive producer Dick Wolf and Oz creator and executive producer Tom Fontana. The two had been good friends since Fontana was on St. Elsewhere and Wolf was on Hill Street Blues in the early ’80s.
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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.
