Jonathan E. Steinberg is a television producer

Television producer

The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...

 and screenwriter

Screenwriter

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. Along with Josh Schaer and Stephen Chbosky

Stephen Chbosky

Stephen Chbosky is an American novelist, screenwriter, and film director best known for the coming-of-age novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower...

, he co-created the television series Jericho

Jericho (TV series)

Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States...

, where he served as writer, producer and executive story editor, Jericho ran on CBS

CBS

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 from September 20, 2006, through March 25, 2008.

Steinberg then developed the television series Human Target, loosely based on the DC

DC Comics

DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...

 comic book

Comic book

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 Human Target

Human Target

The Human Target is the name of two fictional comic book characters that have appeared in books published by DC Comics. The first is Fred Venable, who appears in Detective Comics #201 , by Edmond Hamilton and Sheldon Moldoff....

, for Fox

Fox Broadcasting Company

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. He served as writer, executive producer and showrunner for the first season, before Chuck

Chuck (TV series)

Chuck is an action-comedy/spy-drama television program from the United States created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. The series is about an "average computer-whiz-next-door" named Chuck, played by Zachary Levi, who receives an encoded e-mail from an old college friend now working for the Central...

producer Matt Miller was brought in as showrunner for the second season. Steinberg remained an executive producer.

Credits

• Jericho
  Jericho (TV series)
  Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States...
  
  (2006–2008) TV series (co-creator, writer, producer)
• Human Target (2010–2011) TV series (developer, writer, executive producer)

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