Hart Hanson
Hart Hanson is writer and producer.
Works
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 Count50
Back to the Lab: A Bones Retrospective
Join the cast and producers of Bones for an in-depth look into one of the longest running dramas in television history. With some never before seen footage, this unique retrospective explores the show from the very beginning, highlighting the defining aspects of the series that kept millions of viewers entertained and captivated for 12 straight seasons. Featuring brand new interviews with Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin, TJ Thyne, Tamara Taylor, John Boyd, Hart Hanson, Stephen Nathan, Kathy Reichs, Barry Josephson, Michael Peterson, Jonathan Collier, and Karine Rosenthal.
Release Date2017-03-18
Charactersd Self
Bones
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.
Release Date2005-09-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count20
Vote Count3491
Stargate SG-1
The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets. SG-1 is an elite Air Force special operations team, one of more than two dozen teams from Earth who explore the galaxy and defend against alien threats such as the Goa'uld, Replicators, and the Ori.
Release Date1997-07-27
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count1816
Judging Amy
Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly. Its main character is a judge who serves in a family court, and in addition to the family-related cases that she adjudicates, many episodes of the show focus on her own experiences as a divorced mother, and on the experiences of her mother, a social worker who works in the field of child welfare. This series was based on the life experiences of Brenneman's mother.
Release Date1999-09-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count12
Vote Count84
The Outer Limits
Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.
Release Date1995-03-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count232
Joan of Arcadia
Joan Girardi has begun acting a little strange since her family moved to the city of Arcadia. No one knows that various people keep introducing themselves as God, and then giving the teenager specific directions to do things. Unsure of what God wants, and if she's even sane, Joan tentatively begins to follow God's cryptic directives, all the while trying to retain a "normal" teen-aged existence.
Release Date2003-09-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count85
Cold Squad
Cold Squad is a Canadian police procedural television series first broadcast in 1998 that followed the investigations of a part of the Vancouver Police Department Homicide Division tasked with solving cold cases, the titular Cold Squad, as led by Sergeant Ali McCormick (Julie Stewart). The cast of Cold Squad was diverse and changing, McCormick being the only character to appear in all 7 seasons. Between the second and third seasons, almost the entire on-screen cast other than Julie Stewart were replaced. This along with the new sets, a significant revamp of the credits and theme music, and even having McCormick's hair change from auburn to dirty-blonde all contributed to a considerable reworking of the series.
Release Date1998-01-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count14
Road to Avonlea
In the fictional small town of Avonlea, Prince Edward Island, in the early 20th century, 10-year-old Montreal heiress Sara Stanley is sent by her wealthy father to live with her two maiden aunts, Hetty and Olivia King, to be near her late mother's side of the family.
Release Date1990-01-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count5
Vote Count39
Traders
Traders is a Canadian television drama series, which was broadcast on Global Television Network from 1996 to 2000. Set in the Toronto-based investment house Gardner/Ross, "Traders" explores the intimate lives and loves of investment bankers whose high-stakes decisions and sizzling alliances can have grave international consequences.
Release Date1996-02-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count3
The Finder
Walter Sherman, an Iraq War veteran, has the extraordinary ability to help people find the unfindable.
Release Date2012-01-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count180
The Odyssey
The Odyssey is a Canadian-produced half-hour adventure-fantasy television series for children, originally broadcast 1992-94 on CBC Television. It starred Illya Woloshyn as Jay Ziegler, Ashleigh Aston Moore as Donna/Alpha, Tony Sampson as Keith/Flash, Andrea Nemeth as Medea/Sierra Jones, Mark Hildreth as Finger, Ryan Reynolds as Macro, Janet Hodgkinson as Val Ziegler, and Devon Sawa as Yudo.
Release Date1992-03-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count15
North of 60
North of 60 is a mid-1990s Canadian television series depicting life in the sub-Arctic northern boreal forest. It first aired on CBC Television in 1992 and was syndicated around the world. It is set in the fictional community of Lynx River, a primarily Native-run town depicted as being in the Dehcho Region, Northwest Territories. Most of the characters were Dene. Some non-native characters had important roles: the restaurant/motel owner, the band manager, the nurse and the town's main RCMP officer. The show explored themes of Native poverty, alcoholism, cultural preservation and conflict over land settlements and natural resource exploitation. Originally somewhat light-hearted, it quickly became a more dramatic and ponderous series.
Release Date1992-12-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count48
Poltergeist: The Legacy
The adventures of the members of a secret society known as the Legacy and their efforts to protect humankind from occult dangers.
Release Date1996-04-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count37
Snoops
Glenn Hall runs a less-than-conventional detective. Her staff includes Roberta Young, a detective who goes to great lengths to get the job done; Manny Lott, the resident technology wiz; and Dana Plant, a former Santa Monica police detective.
Release Date1999-09-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
Ready or Not
Ready or Not is a Canadian teen drama series which aired on the Showtime Movie Channel and later on the Disney Channel and Global Television Network for 5 seasons and 65 episodes between 1993 and 1997 in both Canada and the United States.
Release Date1993-04-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count6
Cupid
Trevor Hale is an attractive, sarcastic and irreverent man who claims to be Cupid, the Roman god of love, and has descended from Mount Olympus to work on Earth.
Release Date1998-09-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count15
Backstrom
Detective Lieutenant Everett Backstrom is a man with no filter. After a five-year exile to the traffic division for offensive behavior, he has returned from disgrace to lead Portland's newly minted S.C.U. Tasked with navigating the city's most sensitive and serious cases, he must solve each crime as he tries, and fails, to change his own self-destructive behavior. Based on renowned Swedish criminologist and novelist Leif G.W. Persson’s hit series of books of the same name.
Release Date2015-01-22
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Episode Count1
Vote Count91
Fly by Night
Fly by Night is a Canadian adventure series co-produced by France, Canada and The United States that aired for one season in 1991 and was part of CBS' Crimetime After Primetime in the United States. The show stars David James Elliott as Mack, François Guétary as Jean-Philippe Pasteur, both pilots for a small time airline "Slick Air" owned by Sally Slick.
Release Date1991-04-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
Trust in Me
A police thriller set in Vancouver's underworld. Officer Dylan Gray is drawn back into the seductive excitement of undercover work when an old friend returns from the dead, forcing a final showdown between rival gangs and the police.
Release Date1995-01-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2