John Shiban (Writer)

Defenders of Justice: The Story of The Lone Gunmen

Behind the scenes with the cast and crew of The Lone Gunmen.

Release Date2005-01-01

Charactersd Himself

Supernatural

When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.

Release Date2005-09-13

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count22

Vote Count7855

The Vampire Diaries

The story of two vampire brothers obsessed with the same girl, who bears a striking resemblance to the beautiful but ruthless vampire they knew and loved in 1864.

Release Date2009-09-10

DepartmentProduction

JobCo-Executive Producer

Episode Count22

Vote Count9216

Star Trek: Enterprise

During the mid-22nd century, a century before Captain Kirk's five-year mission, Jonathan Archer captains the United Earth ship Enterprise during the early years of Starfleet, leading up to the Earth-Romulan War and the formation of the Federation.

Release Date2001-09-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count5

Vote Count849

The X-Files

The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.

Release Date1993-09-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count24

Vote Count3255

Breaking Bad

Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.

Release Date2008-01-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count15665

Better Call Saul

Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".

Release Date2015-02-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count5681

Legend of the Seeker

The adventures of woodsman Richard Cypher, who discovers that he was born to fulfill a prophecy of becoming a guardian hero to oppressed people. With the help of a mysterious woman named Kahlan and a wise old wizard named Zedd, he must stop a ruthless and bloodthirsty tyrant from unleashing an ancient evil and enslaving the world.

Release Date2008-11-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count306

Law & Order: Organized Crime

The detectives of the Organized Crime Control Bureau work to dismantle New York City's most vicious and violent illegal enterprises.

Release Date2021-04-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count9

Vote Count266

Hell on Wheels

The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time.

Release Date2011-11-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count431

Ozark

A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss.

Release Date2017-07-21

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count24

Vote Count2469

Masters of the Air

During World War II, airmen risk their lives with the 100th Bomb Group, a brotherhood forged by courage, loss, and triumph.

Release Date2024-01-25

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Episode Count1

Vote Count484

Torchwood

The exploits of a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the extraterrestrial.

Release Date2006-10-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count515

Da Vinci's Demons

The series follows the "untold" story of Leonardo Da Vinci: the genius during his early years in Renaissance Florence. As a 25-year old artist, inventor, swordsman, lover, dreamer and idealist, he struggles to live within the confines of his own reality and time as he begins to not only see the future, but invent it.

Release Date2013-04-12

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count10

Vote Count655

NOS4A2

A young Victoria "Vic" McQueen discovers she has the power to unlock portals that help her find lost objects. As she delves further into this hidden universe, she encounters many other "inscape travelers" - some benevolent, and some who have been corrupted by their power. When Vic encounters Charlie Manx, an immortal who stays that way by feeding off of the souls of children, she makes a sworn enemy of Manx.

Release Date2019-06-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count398

Threat Matrix

Against the rising threat, the Homeland Security Agency has created a highly specialized, elite task force trained and equipped to counter anyone or anything that threatens our nation. The head of this super-secret team is Special Agent John Kilmer. He reports only to the President and has authority to call upon the technical skills, firepower and the specialist agents of the FBI, CIA and NSA.

Release Date2003-09-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count6

The Lone Gunmen

After years of playing second fiddle to Agents Mulder and Scully on  The X-Files, the trio of computer-hacking conspiracy geeks popularly known as The Lone Gunmen are finally heading out on their own. Never ones to stray far from the center of corporate and government intrigue, the threesome play like a misguided Mission Impossible team, embarking on a series of comic adventures that simultaneously highlight their genius and ineptitude.

Release Date2001-03-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count85

Shut Eye

A darkly comedic look at the world of Los Angeles storefront psychics and the organized crime syndicate that runs them. Former magician Charlie Haverford oversees a number of fortune telling parlors on behalf of his violent and domineering Romani kingpin boss, until a blow to the head jars him into a new mindset, making him question everything he has ever believed.

Release Date2016-12-07

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count10

Vote Count56

Harsh Realm

Harsh Realm is a science fiction television series about humans trapped inside a virtual reality simulation.

Release Date1999-10-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count11

The Gathering

The Gathering is a television mini series directed by Bill Eagles, starring Peter Fonda, Peter Gallagher, and Jamie-Lynn Sigler. This thriller was first shown October 13, 2007, on Lifetime Television.

Release Date2007-10-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count5

Rest Stop

In Texas, the aspirant actress Nicole Carrow runs away home to Los Angeles with her boyfriend Jess Hilts. They drive through a shortcut in an old road, and when they park in a rest stop, Jess is abducted by the sadistic driver of an old yellow truck. Along the night, Nicole is threatened by the sick maniac, while mysterious things happen to her in the place.

Release Date2006-10-07

DepartmentWriting

JobAuthor

Vote Count279

Rest Stop: Don't Look Back

One year after running away from home, Nicole and Jesse are still missing. When Jesse's brother, Tom, returns home from active duty, he sets out with his friends Marilyn and Jared to locate the lost couple. Their search leads them to the stretch of old highway with a mysterious Rest Stop, where they find themselves in the same predicament as Nicole and Jesse: confronting a madman.

Release Date2008-09-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count98

OTIS

After being captured and tortured by the psychopath Otis, teen cheerleader Riley Lawson escapes and informs her parents, who quickly sidestep sluggish FBI agents and take matters into their own hands. But the Lawsons' revenge plan hits a snag when Otis's unusual brother enters the picture.

Release Date2008-03-07

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count87

Frankenstein

An investigation into a serial killer leads two detectives to discover that Dr. Frankenstein and his creature are still alive after two centuries of genetic experiments.

Release Date2004-10-09

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count41

Point Dume

Tom Styles is a lonely production assistant to a Hollywood producer who, though a case of mistaken identity with his boss, gets caught up in a very complicated drug deal.

Release Date1995-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Inside The X-Files

Inside the X-Files for a behind-the-scenes look at the show. Also included are interviews with the cast and creator Chris Carter, never before seen segments from the show, outtakes and a sneak preview of the upcoming feature film.

Release Date1998-02-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count21

NOS4A2: Ghost

In this digital short, a boy forms a strange and dangerous bond with a possessed car that shows up at his father’s garage. Paired with the first season of AMC's NOS4A2, based on the book by Joe Hill.

Release Date2019-07-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6