Tim Minear
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Tim Minear is an American
screenwriter and director. He was born in New York
, grew up in Whittier, California
, and studied film at California State University, Long Beach
.
Minear was an assistant director on the film Platoon
, and wrote episodes for several television series including The X-Files
, Zorro (1990 TV series)
, and Lois and Clark. He later wrote, executive-produced, and directed episodes of Strange World
, Angel
, Firefly
, Wonderfalls
, and The Inside
(which he also created, with Howard Gordon
).
Minear had another series, Drive
, airing on Fox in April 2007, however it was cancelled by the network after only four episodes. Drive was set to return with two additional episodes on July 4, 2007, but these were rescheduled to July 13 and then cancelled. This continued his tradition of short-lived work on Fox.
Minear often works with Joss Whedon
, and his work is typically characterized by a sharp, black humour and an ability to portray characters who are sympathetic and understandable, but morally ambiguous. An example of this is Angel
Season Two, where Minear wrote all of the key episodes in the "beige Angel" arc.
In 2004 Tim Minear stated that he was hired to write a screenplay of The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
. In 2006 Minear had finished the script, which was being shopped around to various directors.
In 2007 Minear received a pilot commitment from ABC
for Miracle Man, a drama series for which the company engaged in a bidding war with Fox Broadcasting Company
. The series is being produced by 20th Century Fox Television
, with which Minear is signed in an overall deal.
United States
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screenwriter and director. He was born in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, grew up in Whittier, California
Whittier, California
Whittier is a city in Los Angeles County, California about southeast of Los Angeles. The city had a population of 85,331 at the 2010 census, up from 83,680 as of the 2000 census, and encompasses 14.7 square miles . Like nearby Montebello, the city constitutes part of the Gateway Cities...
, and studied film at California State University, Long Beach
California State University, Long Beach
California State University, Long Beach is the second largest campus of the California State University system and the third largest university in the state of California by enrollment...
.
Minear was an assistant director on the film Platoon
Platoon (film)
Platoon is a 1986 American war film written and directed by Oliver Stone and stars Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe and Charlie Sheen. It is the first of Stone's Vietnam War trilogy, followed by 1989's Born on the Fourth of July and 1993's Heaven & Earth....
, and wrote episodes for several television series including The X-Files
The X-Files
The X-Files is an American science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. The program originally aired from to . The show was a hit for the Fox network, and its characters and slogans became popular culture touchstones in the 1990s...
, Zorro (1990 TV series)
Zorro (1990 TV series)
Zorro, also known as The New Zorro, New World Zorro, and Zorro 1990, is an American action-adventure drama series featuring Duncan Regehr as the character of Zorro. Regehr portrayed the fearless Latino hero and fencer on The Family Channel from 1990 to 1993...
, and Lois and Clark. He later wrote, executive-produced, and directed episodes of Strange World
Strange World (TV series)
Strange World is a short-lived American television program about military investigations into criminal abuses of science and technology. ABC commissioned thirteen episodes, of which only three aired in March, 1999, before they cancelled the program. By the time ABC officially axed the show, the...
, Angel
Angel (TV series)
Angel is an American television series, a spin-off of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The series was created by Buffys creator, Joss Whedon, in collaboration with David Greenwalt, and first aired on October 5, 1999...
, Firefly
Firefly (TV series)
Firefly is an American space western television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon, under his Mutant Enemy Productions label. Whedon served as executive producer, along with Tim Minear....
, Wonderfalls
Wonderfalls
Wonderfalls is a comedy-drama television series that was broadcast on the Fox television network in 2004.The show centres on Jaye Tyler , a recent Brown University graduate with a philosophy degree, who holds a dead-end job as a sales clerk at a Niagara Falls gift shop...
, and The Inside
The Inside
The Inside is an American crime drama television series created by Tim Minear and Howard Gordon and produced by Imagine Television. The Inside follows the work of the FBI's Los Angeles Violent Crimes Unit , a division dedicated to investigating particularly dangerous crimes. The Inside initially...
(which he also created, with Howard Gordon
Howard Gordon
Howard Gordon is an American screenwriter and producer.-Life and career:Gordon was born in Queens, New York, New York. After graduating from Princeton in 1984, Gordon came to Los Angeles with fellow filmmaker Alex Gansa to pursue a career in writing for television. Both broke into the industry...
).
Minear had another series, Drive
Drive (TV series)
Drive is a short-lived American action drama television series created by Tim Minear and Ben Queen, produced by Minear, Queen, and Greg Yaitanes, and starring Nathan Fillion, four episodes of which aired on the Fox network in April 2007...
, airing on Fox in April 2007, however it was cancelled by the network after only four episodes. Drive was set to return with two additional episodes on July 4, 2007, but these were rescheduled to July 13 and then cancelled. This continued his tradition of short-lived work on Fox.
Minear often works with Joss Whedon
Joss Whedon
Joseph Hill "Joss" Whedon is an American screenwriter, executive producer, director, comic book writer, occasional composer and actor, founder of Mutant Enemy Productions and co-creator of Bellwether Pictures...
, and his work is typically characterized by a sharp, black humour and an ability to portray characters who are sympathetic and understandable, but morally ambiguous. An example of this is Angel
Angel (TV series)
Angel is an American television series, a spin-off of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The series was created by Buffys creator, Joss Whedon, in collaboration with David Greenwalt, and first aired on October 5, 1999...
Season Two, where Minear wrote all of the key episodes in the "beige Angel" arc.
In 2004 Tim Minear stated that he was hired to write a screenplay of The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, about a lunar colony's revolt against rule from Earth....
. In 2006 Minear had finished the script, which was being shopped around to various directors.
In 2007 Minear received a pilot commitment from ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
for Miracle Man, a drama series for which the company engaged in a bidding war with Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
. The series is being produced by 20th Century Fox Television
20th Century Fox Television
20th Century Fox Television is the television production division of 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, and a production arm of the Fox Broadcasting Company...
, with which Minear is signed in an overall deal.
Credits
- Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
- 4x05 "Brutal Youth" (writer)
- 4x11 "'Twas the Night Before Mxymas" (writer)
- 4x14 "Meet John Doe" (writer)
- 4x20 "I've Got You Under My Skin" (writer)
- The X-FilesThe X-FilesThe X-Files is an American science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. The program originally aired from to . The show was a hit for the Fox network, and its characters and slogans became popular culture touchstones in the 1990s...
- 5x08 "KitsunegariKitsunegari"Kitsunegari" is a 1998 episode of The X-Files television series. It was the eighth episode broadcast in the show's fifth season. When an influential former killer who was arrested by Mulder and Scully escapes, the agents search for him but discover that he is not their only concern.- Plot :In...
" (co-writer) - 5x16 "Mind's Eye" (writer)
- 5x08 "Kitsunegari
- Strange WorldStrange World (TV series)Strange World is a short-lived American television program about military investigations into criminal abuses of science and technology. ABC commissioned thirteen episodes, of which only three aired in March, 1999, before they cancelled the program. By the time ABC officially axed the show, the...
- 1x02 "Lullaby" (writer)
- 1x04 "Spirit Falls" (co-writer)
- AngelAngel (TV series)Angel is an American television series, a spin-off of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The series was created by Buffys creator, Joss Whedon, in collaboration with David Greenwalt, and first aired on October 5, 1999...
- 1x05 "Sense & Sensitivity" (writer)
- 1x09 "Hero" (co-writer)
- 1x11 "Somnambulist" (writer)
- 1x15 "The Prodigal" (writer)
- 1x19 "SanctuarySanctuary (Angel episode)"Sanctuary" is episode 19 of season 1 in the television show Angel. Co-written by Tim Minear and series creator Joss Whedon and directed by Michael Lange, it was originally broadcast on May 2, 2000 on the WB network....
" (co-writer) - 2x02 "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been" (writer)
- 2x07 "DarlaDarla (Angel episode)"Darla" is episode 7 of season 2 in the television show Angel. Written and directed by Tim Minear, it was originally broadcast on November 14, 2000 on the WB television network. In this episode, Angel tries to rescue Darla from the clutches of Wolfram & Hart and Lindsey's affections, as she...
" (writer/director) - 2x09 "The Trial" (co-writer)
- 2x10 "Reunion" (co-writer)
- 2x15 "Reprise" (writer)
- 2x16 "Epiphany" (writer)
- 2x21 "Through The Looking Glass" (writer/director)
- 3x03 "That Old Gang of Mine" (writer)
- 3x06 "Billy" (co-writer)
- 3x09 "Lullaby" (writer/director)
- 3x14 "Couplet" (co-writer/director)
- 3x20 "A New World" (director)
- 3x21 "Benediction" (writer/director)
- 4x22 "Home" (writer/director)
- FireflyFirefly (TV series)Firefly is an American space western television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon, under his Mutant Enemy Productions label. Whedon served as executive producer, along with Tim Minear....
- 1x02 "The Train JobThe Train Job"The Train Job" is the second episode of the American science-fiction western television series Firefly created by Joss Whedon, although it was the first to be shown...
" (co-writer) - 1x03 "Bushwhacked" (writer/director)
- 1x07 "Out of GasOut of Gas"Out of Gas" is the eighth episode of the science fiction television series Firefly created by Joss Whedon. It differs stylistically from the rest of the series, in that it tells its story alternately in three timeframes: events in the present, events in the near-past that led to the present, and...
" (writer) - 1x12 "The Message" (co-writer/director)
- 1x02 "The Train Job
- WonderfallsWonderfallsWonderfalls is a comedy-drama television series that was broadcast on the Fox television network in 2004.The show centres on Jaye Tyler , a recent Brown University graduate with a philosophy degree, who holds a dead-end job as a sales clerk at a Niagara Falls gift shop...
- 1x02 "Karma Chameleon" (writer)
- 1x07 "Barrel Bear" (unaired) (co-writer)
- The InsideThe InsideThe Inside is an American crime drama television series created by Tim Minear and Howard Gordon and produced by Imagine Television. The Inside follows the work of the FBI's Los Angeles Violent Crimes Unit , a division dedicated to investigating particularly dangerous crimes. The Inside initially...
- 1x01 "New Girl In Town" (teleplay & story/director)
- 1x06 "Thief of Hearts" (co-writer)
- 1x10 "Little Girl Lost" (unaired in US, UK Airdate 03/17/2006) (co-writer)
- 1x13 "Skin and Bone" (unaired) (story)
- DriveDrive (TV series)Drive is a short-lived American action drama television series created by Tim Minear and Ben Queen, produced by Minear, Queen, and Greg Yaitanes, and starring Nathan Fillion, four episodes of which aired on the Fox network in April 2007...
- 1x00 "Unaired Pilot" (co-writer)
- 1x01 "The Starting Line" (co-writer)
- 1x02 "Partners" (co-writer)
- DollhouseDollhouse (TV series)Dollhouse is an American science fiction television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon under Mutant Enemy Productions. It premiered on February 13, 2009, on the Fox network and was officially cancelled on November 11, 2009. The final episode aired on January 29, 2010...
- 1x05 "True Believer" (writer)
- 1x12 "Omega" (writer/director)
- 2x03 "Belle Chose" (writer)
- 2x11 "Getting CloserGetting Closer (Dollhouse)"Getting Closer" is the 11th episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series Dollhouse and the show's 24th episode overall. The episode was written and directed by Tim Minear. It aired in the United States on Fox on January 8, 2010.This episode sees the beginning of...
" (writer/director)
- TerriersTerriers (TV series)Terriers is an American crime comedy-drama television series created by Ted Griffin for FX. It premiered on September 8, 2010. The show was canceled by FX on December 6, 2010 after the first season.-Premise:...
- 1x11 "Sins of the Past" (writer)
- The Chicago Code
- 1x04 "Cabrini-Green" (co-writer)
- American Horror StoryAmerican Horror StoryAmerican Horror Story is a horror-drama television series created and produced by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. The series centers on the Harmon family: Ben, Vivien and their daughter Violet, who move from Boston to Los Angeles after Vivien has a miscarriage and Ben has an affair...
- 1x05 "Halloween (Part 2)" (writer)