Jorge Zamacona
Jorge Zamacona | |
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| Born | December 30, 1959 Madigan Army Hospital in Fort Lewis, Washington |
| Occupation | Television Writer, Producer |
| Nationality | American |
| Notable works | Third Watch |
Jorge Zamacona (born December 30, 1959) is an American television writer and producer.[1] He worked extensively on the police drama Homicide: Life on the Street and wrote the series' crossover episodes with the crime drama Law & Order. Zamacona co-created the police dramas 10-8: Officers on Duty and Wanted.[2][3][4][5]
Biography
Zamacona was born on December 30, 1959, in
Zamacona is married to Blair Winters Zamacona and has three children.[1]
1980s
Zamacona began working for television in 1984 as a writer for the second season of medical drama
In 1988 Zamacona wrote the science fiction film World Gone Wild. The film was set in a post apocalyptic future where water is a precious resource.
1990s
In 1993 Zamacona became a writer for the
In 1996 Zamacona was hired as a co-executive producer and writer for new
In 1997 Zamacona returned to Homicide and Law & Order to write a further crossover storyline. He wrote the
In 1999 Zamacona served as an executive producer and writer for CBS pilot St. Michael's Crossing but the network did not order a series.
2000s
In 2001 Zamacona was an executive producer for the feature
In fall 2002 Zamacona was hired as a writer for the third season of NBC emergency services drama
In 2003 Zamacona reunited with his Homicide colleague Tom Fontana as a supervising producer on the sixth and final season of HBO prison drama Oz.[2] Oz centers on prisoners in a high security unit. The series was created by Fontana and ended in February 2003.
In fall 2003 Zamacona co-created the ABC police drama 10-8: Officers on Duty with Louis St. Clair.[2] Zamacona worked as an executive producer and writer for the series. The series centred on a rookie police officer in Los Angeles County. The other executive producers were Aaron Spelling and E. Duke Vincent. The series was canceled after airing twelve episodes although fifteen episodes were produced. Zamacona contributed to thirteen of those episodes as a writer. Zamacona wrote the teleplay for the pilot episode "Brothers in Arms" from a story he co-wrote with St. Clair. Supervising producer Denitria Harris-Lawrence wrote the teleplay for the episodes "A Hard Day's Night", "Mercy, Mercy Me" and "Love Don't Love Nobody" from stories by Zamacona and St. Clair. Co-executive producer Frank Renzulli wrote the teleplay for the episode "Gun of a Son" from a story by Zamacona and St. Clair. Zamacona wrote the teleplay for the episodes "Badlands", "Blood Sugar Sex Magik", "The Wild Bunch" and "Wild and the Innocent" from stories he co-wrote with St. Clair. Renzulli and Zamacona co-wrote the episodes "Late for School" and "Gimme Shelter". Bradford Winters wrote the teleplay for the episode "Flirtin' with Disaster" from a story by Zamacona and St. Clair. Zamacona wrote the episode "Gypsy Road" solo.
In 2004 Zamacona served as an executive producer for the television feature Silverlake. The film starred Kerr Smith.
Zamacona and St. Clair created a second series in fall 2005. The police drama Wanted aired on the TNT network.[2][4][5] Zamacona once again served as an executive producer and writer for the project.[3] Wanted follows a multilateral police taskforce charged with tracking the 100 most wanted criminals. The series other executive producers were again Spelling and Vincent. Zamacona wrote the teleplay for the pilot from a story he co-wrote with St. Clair. Zamacona wrote the teleplay for the episode "The Wild Bunch" from a story he co-wrote with St. Clair. Brian Logan wrote the teleplay for the episode "Click, Click, Boom" from a story by Zamacona and St. Clair.
Zamacona was an active participant in the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike. He supported royalties for writers based on online streaming of episodes they had written.[6]
In 2009 Zamacona became a consulting producer and writer for the ABC police drama The Unusuals. The series was created by Noah Hawley and focused on detectives in the New York homicide unit. The series was canceled after ten episodes. Zamacona wrote the episode "The Dentist".
2010s
In 2010 Zamacona was attached to new series The Saint as an executive producer.[7] Following that series, Zamacona served as the Consulting Producer and writer on the TNT show Proof in 2015.[8] The next year, Zamacona stayed with TNT as the Co-Executive Producer and Writer on The Last Ship that starred Eric Dane. Also, in 2016, Zamacona was the Executive Producer on ABC's Quantico starring Priyanka Chopra. In 2019 Zamacona resumed working alongside Tom Fontana for Showtime's City on a Hill , starring Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge, as a Co-Executive Producer and writer.
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References
- ^ a b c Office of University Communications (2008). "Carson School's 1st film, 'Vipers in the Grass' begins principal photography". University of Nebraska. Retrieved 2010-05-06.
- ^ a b c d e f "Wanted - Jorge Zamacona". TNT. 2004. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2010-05-06.
- ^ a b "Wanted Series Creator - Jorge Zamacona - Interview". Comic Book Bin. 2004. Retrieved 2010-05-06.
- ^ a b "Cops and Their Quarry". New York Times. 2005-07-29. Retrieved 2010-05-06.
- ^ a b Alessandra Stanley (2005-07-29). "Cops Going by Their List, Not the Book". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-05-06.
- ^ David Carr (2007-11-19). "Creativity, Strikes and Power". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-05-06.
- ^ Nellie Andreeva (2008). "New take for "Saint" series". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on May 9, 2008. Retrieved 2010-05-06.
- ^ Proof, retrieved 2019-03-14
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