Javier Grillo-Marxuach (Writer)

The Middleman

Struggling female artist Wendy Watson, recruited by a secret agency, struggles to wrap her head around her bizarre new job -- fighting dangers humanity isn't prepared to face -- under the guidance of a handsome and relentlessly wholesome hero who calls himself "The Middleman" in this tongue-in-cheek adventure series.

Release Date2008-06-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Charactersd

Episode Count12

Vote Count40

Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show

“Showrunners” is the first ever feature length documentary film to explore the fascinating world of US television showrunners and the creative forces aligned around them. These are the people responsible for creating, writing and overseeing every element of production on one of the United State’s biggest exports – television drama and comedy series. Often described as the most complex job in the entertainment business, a showrunner is the chief writer / producer on a TV series and, in most instances, the show’s creator. Battling daily between art and commerce, showrunners manage every aspect of a TV show’s development and production: creative, financial and logistical.

Release Date2014-10-17

Charactersd Self

Vote Count48

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

Release Date1999-09-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count3967

Lost

Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.

Release Date2004-09-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count7

Vote Count4562

FROM

Unravel the mystery of a nightmarish town in middle America that traps all those who enter. As the unwilling residents fight to keep a sense of normalcy and search for a way out, they must also survive the threats of the surrounding forest – including the terrifying creatures that come out when the sun goes down.

Release Date2022-02-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count1975

The 100

100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity, the last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the repressive regime picks 100 expendable juvenile delinquents to send down to Earth to see if the planet is still habitable.

Release Date2014-03-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count8287

Medium

Allison Dubois works in the District Attorney’s office using her natural intuition about people and her ability to communicate with the dead to help to solve crimes. Her dreams often give her clues to the whereabouts of missing people.

Release Date2005-01-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count7

Vote Count538

Charmed

Three sisters (Prue, Piper and Phoebe) reunite and unlock their powers to become the Charmed Ones, the most powerful good witches of all time, whose prophesied destiny is to protect innocent lives from evil beings such as demons and warlocks. Each sister possesses unique magical powers that grow and evolve, while they attempt to maintain normal lives in modern day San Francisco.

Release Date1998-10-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count2389

The Dead Zone

Johnny Smith discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma.

Release Date2002-06-16

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Episode Count1

Vote Count150

The Witcher

Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster-hunter for hire, journeys toward his destiny in a turbulent world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.

Release Date2019-12-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count6154

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

Return to the world of Thra, where three Gelfling discover the horrifying secret behind the Skeksis' power and set out to ignite the fires of rebellion and save their world.

Release Date2019-08-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count404

seaQuest DSV

In the early 21st century, mankind has colonized the oceans. The United Earth Oceans Organization enlists Captain Nathan Bridger and the submarine seaQuest DSV to keep the peace and explore the last frontier on Earth.

Release Date1993-09-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count135

Cowboy Bebop

Long on style and perpetually short on cash, bounty hunters Spike, Jet and Faye trawl the solar system looking for jobs. But can they outrun Spike's past?

Release Date2021-11-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count423

Blood & Treasure

An antiquities expert teams up with an art thief to catch a terrorist who funds his attacks using stolen artifacts.

Release Date2019-05-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count128

The Shannara Chronicles

A young Healer armed with an unpredictable magic guides a runaway Elf in her perilous quest to save the peoples of the Four Lands from an age-old Demon scourge.

Release Date2016-01-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count968

The Pretender

Raised in a secret facility built for experimenting on children, Jarod is a genius who can master any profession and become anyone he has to be. When he realizes as an adult that he's actually a prisoner and his captors are not as benevolent as he's been told, he breaks out. While trying to find his real identity, Jarod helps those he encounters and tries to avoid the woman sent to retrieve him.

Release Date1996-09-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count5

Vote Count197

Helix

Helix is an intense thriller about a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control who travel to a high-tech research facility in the Arctic to investigate a possible disease outbreak, only to find themselves pulled into a terrifying life-and-death struggle that holds the key to mankind's salvation...or total annihilation.

Release Date2014-01-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count440

The Chronicle

The Chronicle is the name of a science fiction television series on the Sci Fi Channel. The series is based on the "News from the Edge" series of novels by Mark Sumner, a St. Louis, Missouri based author. The show was originally sold to NBC, which shot the pilot, then later found a home with The Sci-Fi Channel.

Release Date2001-07-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count5

Charlie's Angels

Everyone deserves a second chance—even a thief, a street racer and a cop who got in a little too deep. After all, the three women who solve cases for their elusive boss, Charlie Townsend, are no saints. They're angels... Charlie's Angels.

Release Date2011-09-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count53

Boomtown

Each episode of this series, set in contemporary Los Angeles, examines one crime from many different viewpoints - uniformed cops, detectives, witnesses, the media, the fire department and rescue squad, even the criminals themselves.

Release Date2002-09-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count17

Day One

A group of apartment residents survive an unknown worldwide cataclysm that destroys modern infrastructure.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count1

Jake 2.0

Jake 2.0 is an American science fiction television series originally broadcast on UPN in 2003. The series was canceled on January 14, 2004 due to low ratings, leaving four episodes unaired in the United States. In the United Kingdom, all the episodes aired on Sky1. The series later aired in syndication on HDNet and the Sci Fi Channel. The series revolves around a computer expert, Jake Foley, who works for the U.S. government's National Security Agency and was accidentally infected by nanobots which give him superhuman powers. He is able to control technology with his brain, making him "the ultimate human upgrade" according to the show's introduction.

Release Date2003-09-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count45