TOM FONTANA, SHOWRUNNER SUPREME OF OZ, HOMICIDE, THE BORGIAS + ST. ELSEWHERE ON CREATING ICONIC, UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTERS WHILE “COLOURISING” US TELEVISION (MF GALAXY 072)
MULTIPLE AWARD-WINNING TV WRITER ON SOCIAL REALISM, CHALLENGING VIEWERS + HIMSELF THROUGH DRAMA, AND HIS ARCHETYPE OF THE “MALCOLM X PROFESSIONAL” Tom Fontana is the writer/producer and/or showrunner on St. Elsewhere, Homicide: Life on the Street, Oz, Copper, The Jury, The Beat, The Bedford Diaries, and The Borgias. LISTEN/DOWNLOAD He’s also one American television’s most celebrated writers. He’s received the Cable Ace Award, the Humanitas Prize, an Edgar Award , the Austin Film Festival’s Outstanding Television Writer Award, first prize at Switzerland’s Cinéma Tout Ecran Festival, three Emmys , three awards from the Writers' Guild, four from the Television Critics Association, and four Peabodys . And all this, if his website is to be believed, without using a single computer--Fontana claims to write longhand on yellow legal paper. Long before HBO’s The Wire took all the credit for ...