Tom Fontana (Production)
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Works
American Sweatshop
While dealing with a chaotic personal life, Daisy Moriarty finds herself sucked into the underbelly of the internet. Moriarty and a motley group of coworkers toil in a cottage industry of agencies that evaluate harmful and offensive pictures and videos uploaded to social media. With detached caution and a deranged sense of humor, they examine the millions of posts that get 'flagged for review'. But one particularly violent video grabs hold of Daisy, luring her out of this office, away from the safety of her keyboard, and into a dangerous world as she obsessively seeks to hold someone accountable.
Release Date: 2025-03-08
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Zo
Follows Beecher and O'Reily after their release from Oz.
Release Date: 2024-05-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 1
Monsieur Spade
Detective Sam Spade is pulled out of his tranquil retirement in France to investigate a series of brutal murders.
Release Date: 2024-01-14
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 45
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Rita Moreno defied both her humble upbringing and relentless racism to become one of a select group who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award. Over a seventy year career, she has paved the way for Hispanic-American performers by refusing to be pigeonholed into one-dimensional stereotypes.
Release Date: 2021-06-18
Character: Self
Vote Count: 15
City on a Hill
In early 90s Boston, an African-American District Attorney comes in from Brooklyn advocating change and forms an unlikely alliance with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran invested in maintaining the status quo. Together they take on a family of armored car robbers from Charlestown in a case that grows to encompass and eventually upend Boston’s city-wide criminal justice system.
Release Date: 2019-06-16
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 158
United We Fan
Fans, stars, creators, and more come together to explore the dynamic history and evolution of save-our-show television fan campaigns from the letter-writing and product mail-in campaigns of yesterday to the social media and crowdfunding campaigns of today.
Release Date: 2018-04-28
Character: Self
Vote Count: 1
Paterno
After becoming the winningest coach in college football history, Joe Paterno is embroiled in Penn State's Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal, challenging his legacy and forcing him to face questions of institutional failure regarding the victims.
Release Date: 2018-04-07
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 179
Copper
Kevin Corcoran is a rugged young Irish immigrant policeman trying to keep the peace in the historical Five Points neighborhood in 1860s New York City while searching for information on the disappearance of his wife and death of his daughter.
Release Date: 2012-10-11
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 63
Borgia
The name Borgia stands for betrayal, intrigue and corruption in the Vatican, which was the center of the world during the Renaissance.
Release Date: 2011-10-10
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 79
You Don't Know Jack
Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.
Release Date: 2010-06-27
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 394
PoliWood
An in-depth look at the Democratic and Republican national conventions held during the 2008 U.S. Presidential election year.
Release Date: 2009-07-03
Character: Self
Vote Count: 4
The Philanthropist
The title character, Teddy Rist (portrayed by James Purefoy), is a billionaire playboy haunted by the death of his only child. His life changes when he rescues a young boy during a hurricane in Nigeria. As a result, Rist begins using his fortune to personally change the lives of others.[4] The Philanthropist is based loosely on the life of Bobby Sager.[5] The Philanthropist is an American action drama series that premiered on NBC on Wednesday, June 24, 2009. The program was a limited summer series, principally filmed in South Africa. It opened to strong ratings, but saw a drop in viewers in subsequent weeks. The Philanthropist is a Carnival Films production in association with The Levinson/Fontana Company and Original Media. Tom Fontana, Barry Levinson, Peter Horton, Charlie Corwin, Gareth Neame, and Teri Weinberg served as executive producers.
Release Date: 2009-06-24
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 8
The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry
An in-depth look at Dirty Harry (1971), featuring interviews with such film artists as Michael Madsen, 'Hal Holbrook', John Milius, 'Shane Black' and John Badham.
Release Date: 2008-07-23
Character: Self
Vote Count: 4
A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry
Filmmakers, social scientists and authors take a provocative look at the moral, political and ethical themes of the Dirty Harry films.
Release Date: 2008-07-23
Character: Self
Vote Count: 2
The Evolution of Clint Eastwood
Follow Eastwood's career from television star to matinee idol to Oscar-winning director in this wide-ranging documentary.
Release Date: 2008-06-03
Character: Self
Vote Count: 3
The Business End: Violence in Cinema
An unflinching look at the ongoing debate on violence in movies and its effect on the audience.
Release Date: 2008-06-03
Character: Self
Vote Count: 2
An Omar Broadway Film
.An incarcerated gang member sneaks a video camera into prison in order to document the use of excessive force and corruption among the institution's guards.
Release Date: 2008-04-26
Character: Himself
Vote Count: 1
The Bedford Diaries
At Bedford University, six students are brought together in seminar called Sex and the Human Condition.
Release Date: 2006-03-29
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 8
Vote Count: 2
The Jury
Set in New York City, the series brings the viewer into the jury room to watch the deliberators try to answer the many questions posed during a trial. As facts are exposed through flashbacks of testimony and crime footage, viewers will form their own opinions about the guilt or innocence of the defendant. Following each verdict, a final flashback will let viewers see the crime as it actually happened and reveal whether or not the jury made the right decision.
Release Date: 2004-06-08
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 1
Strip Search
Strip Search follows several parallel stories examining personal freedoms vs. national security in the aftermath of 9/11; two main subplots involve an American woman detained in China and an Arab man detained in New York City.
Release Date: 2004-04-27
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 41
Judas
Was Judas Iscariot, the apostle whose kiss sentenced Jesus Christ to the crucifix, a patriot who argued with Jesus or a pawn of the Roman occupiers? The story of the Passion from a different angle, with Judas doing what he believed was best for his people.
Release Date: 2004-03-08
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 5
Shot in the Heart
The story of a man coming to terms with the sins and secrets of his notorious brother and, in the process, exploring the legacy of violence in his own family.
Release Date: 2001-10-13
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 16
The N.Y. Friars Club Roast of Hugh Hefner
The Comedy Central Roasts are a series of celebrity roast specials which air on the Comedy Central cable network. This one is for Hugh Hefner.
Release Date: 2001-03-11
Character: Self
Vote Count: 10
The Beat
The Beat delves into the personal and professional lives of two young police recruits who patrol New York's streets. The city's daily machinations are seen through the often bloodshot eyes of Officers Mike Dorigan and Zane Marinelli, two youthful, irreverent partners who are truly products of their generation and unique urban environment. Issues of race, excessive police force – and the unpredictable quirkiness of New York's outspoken locals – compel both men to rely on their sense of humor just to make it to the end of their shift.
Release Date: 2000-03-21
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
Homicide: The Movie
Retired police lieutenant Al Giardello is running for mayor when he is suddenly shot at a press conference. All of the detectives, past and present, clamor for an opportunity to help find the shooter.
Release Date: 2000-02-13
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 27
Yesterday's Tomorrows
Showtime's "In the 20th Century" is a millennium-related series of feature-length documentaries in which famous directors take on major subjects of their choosing. In the third of the six films, "Yesterday's Tomorrows," filmmaker Barry Levinson delves into what we, as Americans, thought the future would be as we traveled through the 20th century. Houses and cars of the future, the promise of technology, and the other hopes and dreams of the early part of the century gave way to the fears and anxieties brought about by the atomic age and the Hollywood disaster films that followed. Soon we wondered if we could control technology, or if it would control us. This film is by turns light-hearted and thoughtful, and rare historical and archival film, produced by government and industry, alternates with on-screen interviews with people as diverse as consumer advocate Ralph Nader, cartoonist Matt Groening, futurist Alvin Toffler, comedienne Phyllis Diller, and actor Martin Mull.
Release Date: 1999-08-09
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Oz
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.
Release Date: 1997-07-12
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 56
Vote Count: 752
Oz (TV Series 1997-2003)
Inmates and correctional officers inside the Oswald State Correctional Facility, nicknamed "Oz," battle for power and survival amid warring factions and explosive acts of retribution. Much of the show takes place in Emerald City, an experimental unit in the facility that tries to emphasize rehabilitation and learning responsibility while being incarcerated. Tim McManus is the unit manager of Emerald City.
Release Date: 1997-07-12
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
FireHouse
A film about the dealings of a crew at a firehouse. The group is attacked by an assassin and eventually must accept that the firehouse is to be consolidated with a rescue unit.
Release Date: 1997-01-01
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 3
The Prosecutors
Drama (and prospective pilot) about the lives of three women who work in the New York City DA's office: one a brilliant prosecutor of high-profile cases whose husband is shot and killed in an armed robbery; a second, her tough, bitter, chain-smoking, boozing, wheelchair-bound former mentor; a third, a Latina who is an ambitious legal intern.
Release Date: 1996-12-02
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Homicide: Life on the Street
An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.
Release Date: 1993-01-31
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Character:
Episode Count: 18
Vote Count: 130
Home Fires
Home Fires is an American sitcom
Release Date: 1992-06-24
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 1
Tattingers
Tattingers is an American comedy-drama series that aired by the NBC television network as part of its 1988 fall lineup. After failing in the Nielsen ratings as an hour-long program, the plot and characters were briefly revived in the spring of 1989 as the half-hour situation comedy Nick & Hillary.
Release Date: 1988-10-26
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 1
The Fourth Wise Man
Artaban is a young Magus (Wise Man) who desires to follow the star to the birthplace of the coming King, against the counsel of his friends and family. Carrying three precious jewels to give to the baby Messiah, Artaban and his reluctant servant Orontes set off to join the caravan of the three other wise men. They miss the caravan, but Artaban continues the search for his King, always one step behind. Artaban spends much of his remaining wealth and all of his energy helping the poor and unfortunate people he meets, until at the end of his life he finally finds Jesus--at His trial! Has Artaban wasted his life in a foolish quest? Will he ever get the chance to present his gifts to the King?
Release Date: 1985-03-30
Department: Writing
Job: Teleplay
Vote Count: 21
St. Elsewhere
St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at a lightly-regarded Boston hospital who gave interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions.
Release Date: 1982-10-26
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 29
Vote Count: 86
Hotel Dix
Department: Creator
Job: Creator