Manny Coto

The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek

In honor of the sci-fi franchise’s 55th anniversary this year and produced by The Nacelle Company, the project will feature interviews with cast, crew and experts as it explores pivotal moments in the franchise’s history, from its inception at Lucille Ball’s production company Desilu to recent film and television adaptations.

Release Date: 2021-11-05

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 16

American Horror Stories

An anthology series of stand alone episodes delving into horror myths, legends and lore.

Release Date: 2021-07-15

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 873

NEXT

A Silicon Valley pioneer discovers that one of his own creations – a powerful A.I. – might spell global catastrophe, and teams up with a cybercrime agent to fight a villain unlike anything we’ve ever seen – one whose greatest weapon against us is ourselves.

Release Date: 2020-10-06

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 155

24: Legacy

The story of military hero Eric Carter’s return to the U.S. and the trouble that follows him back – compelling him to ask CTU for help in saving his life, and stopping what potentially could be one of the largest-scale terror attacks on American soil.

Release Date: 2017-02-05

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 242

Star Trek: Inside the Roddenberry Vault

Fifty years after the original Star Trek first arrived on television, is there anything about Gene Roddenberry's space opera that hasn't been uncovered? Plenty! On December 13, 2016 fans can experience Star Trek: The Original Series - The Roddenberry Vault, a newly produced multi-part documentary featuring footage from the cutting room floor, long preserved in film canisters by the Roddenberry Estate. The origins of the classic series are explored with new interviews featuring cast and production personnel combined with newly-found deleted scenes, alternate angles, outtakes, behind the scenes moments, and original visual effects elements to tell the definitive story on the making and enduring legacy of Gene Roddenberry's creation.

Release Date: 2016-12-05

Character: Self

Vote Count: 3

The Exorcist

Follow the lives of two very different priests tackling one family’s case of terrifying demonic possession.

Release Date: 2016-09-23

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 694

Star Trek: The Journey to the Silver Screen

In celebration of Star Trek's 50th anniversary, this two-hour documentary explores this enduring franchise by offering viewers an unprecedented, candid exploration into the original series cancellation and subsequent resurrection as one of the most successful series of motion pictures in Hollywood history. Features new interviews with key creative and production people as well as never before seen images from the production of all six classic Star Trek films along with details on all the un-produced Trek theatrical projects including The God Thing, Star Trek: Planet of the Titans, Star Trek: The Academy Years, and many other aborted big screen voyages for the crew of the Enterprise. Chapter 1 - The New Frontier: Resurrecting Star Trek Chapter 2 - Maiden Voyage: Making Star Trek The Motion Picture Chapter 3 - The Genesis Effect: Engineering The Wrath of Khan Chapter 4 - The Dream Is Alive: The Continuing Mission Chapter 5 - End of an Era: Charting The Undiscovered Country

Release Date: 2016-06-07

Character: Self

Vote Count: 3

American Horror Story

An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.

Release Date: 2011-10-05

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 11

Vote Count: 5687

24: Redemption

Jack Bauer confronts African general/aspiring dictator Benjamin Juma, whose forces have been ordered to capture the children Bauer oversees for malicious military training.

Release Date: 2008-11-23

Department: Production

Job: Producer

The ½ Hour News Hour

The 1/2 Hour News Hour was an American television news satire show that aired on the Fox News Channel. The program presented news stories from a conservative perspective, using a satirical format pioneered by Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, and The Daily Show. The first pilot aired on February 18, 2007, and the second on March 4, 2007. Fox News Channel later purchased 13 more episodes of the show, which started airing on May 13, 2007. The show was cancelled and the final episode aired on September 23, 2007. Cast and crew of the show included Kurt Long, Jennifer Robertson, Manny Coto, and Ned Rice. Longtime Weekend Update anchor Dennis Miller was a regular contributor to the program with his "The Buck Starts Here" segment.

Release Date: 2007-02-18

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 17

Vote Count: 2

Dexter

Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cracks of justice.

Release Date: 2006-10-01

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 96

Vote Count: 4513

Odyssey 5

Odyssey 5 is a Canadian science fiction series that first ran in 2002 on Showtime in the United States and on Space in Canada. Odyssey 5 is the brainchild of Manny Coto, who served as a script-writer and executive producer during the series run. Through his website and in interviews, Coto has expressed his interest in returning to the series at some point, either continuing it or giving it a conclusion.

Release Date: 2002-06-21

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 20

Vote Count: 30

24

Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.

Release Date: 2001-11-06

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 27

Vote Count: 1562

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 Date: 2001-09-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 826

Zenon: The Zequel

Zenon Kar is 15 and lives on a space station which the military has taken over and is dismantling. She receives a mysterious signal and must convince everyone that it's from aliens who have come to help them.

Release Date: 2001-01-12

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 105

The Other Me

When Will Browning is threatened with military summer school if he doesn't get better grades, he decides to do a science project that will definitely get an A. So he buys some Ocean Pups, unhatched sea creatures that will look spectacular, but he hasn't bargained for the cloning agent that the unscrupulous manufacturers have put in the kit. Next thing he knows there's another him.

Release Date: 2000-09-08

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 79

Strange World

Strange World is an American television program about military investigations into criminal abuses of science and technology. ABC commissioned 13 episodes, of which three aired in March 1999, before the network cancelled the program. The remaining ten episodes produced subsequently premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel in Spring 2002. The series was created by Howard Gordon and Tim Kring. In a webchat during the 2002 run on Sci Fi, Gordon stated that, since the producers felt ABC was not going to support the show, the producers had the opportunity to write a conclusion to the story.

Release Date: 1999-03-08

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 3

Star Kid

Shy seventh-grader Spencer Griffith's life changes when the meteor falls into local junkyard and he finds a Cybersuit - the wise and strong robot from another galaxy. Spencer puts Cybersuit on and becomes a different kind of guy

Release Date: 1997-11-13

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 97

Hostile Intent

Paint-ball playing computer geeks who invent a computer chip which can keep the government or any agency from gaining access to computer files are targeted by government assassins during a paint-ball competition.

Release Date: 1997-08-22

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 4

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 Date: 1995-03-26

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 211

Dead at 21

Dead at 21 is a television series broadcast by MTV in 1994. The series ran for eleven thirty-minute episodes with a two-part final episode. The series was created by Jon Sherman, and written by Sherman, P.K. Simonds and Manny Coto.

Release Date: 1994-06-15

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 1

Tales from the Cryptkeeper

Tales from the Cryptkeeper is an animated series aimed at children made by Nelvana Limited, PeaceArch Entertainment, kaBOOM! Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television Animation. It was shown on TVO and ABC, and is still shown near Halloween on Teletoon. It was based on the live-action television show, Tales from the Crypt, which aired concurrently on HBO. Being directed at children, Tales From the Cryptkeeper was significantly milder than the live-action HBO version.

Release Date: 1993-09-18

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 134

Dr. Giggles

In 1957, Evan Rendell flees after his father is lynched for killing multiple patients in his effort to find a replacement heart for his ailing wife. After 35 years, Evan escapes from a mental institution and returns to town for revenge, killing off residents one by one. When Jennifer and her friends break into the Rendell house out of morbid curiosity, Evan notices Jennifer has a heart condition similar to his mother and decides to make her his final victim.

Release Date: 1992-10-23

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 154

Cover-Up

Mike Anderson, a tough American reporter on a dangerous foreign assignment, finds his own life in jeopardy when he uncovers a deadly labyrinth of political intrigue that threatens the lives of thousands. Dispatched to investigate a mysterious and fatal attack on an overseas US naval base, Anderson, a leading investigative journalist and ex-US marine, finds himself back on familiar ground. Instinct makes him question the official CIA explanation that cites an unknown terrorist group called Black October. Alone, and armed only with his combat training and determination to uncover the truth, he sets out to expose a complex and dangerous political web.

Release Date: 1991-02-22

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 36

Playroom

An archaeologist is haunted by a nightmare in which his family is murdered.

Release Date: 1990-09-06

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 7

Tales from the Crypt

Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?

Release Date: 1989-06-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 900

Jack in the Box

A young policeman's partner gets killed while investigating strange phenomena in a ramshackle house. As the surviving policeman sets out to unravel the mystery he attracts the attention of an evil witch that, with the help of a special doll, tries to take possession of his daughters soul.

Release Date: 1989-04-15

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Monsters

Monsters is a syndicated horror anthology series which originally ran from 1988 to 1991 and reran on the Sci-Fi Channel during the 1990s. As of 2011, Monsters airs on NBC Universal's horror/suspense-themed cable channel Chiller in sporadic weekday marathons. In a similar vein to Tales from the Darkside, Monsters shared the same producer, and in some ways succeeded the show. It differed in some respects nonetheless. While Tales sometimes dabbled in stories of science fiction and fantasy, this series was more strictly horror. As the name implies, each episode of Monsters featured a different monster which the story concerned, from the animatronic puppet of a fictional children's television program to mutated, weapon-wielding lab rats. Similar to Tales, however, the stories in Monsters were rarely very straightforward action plots and often contained some ironic twist in which a character's conceit or greed would do him in, often with gruesome results. Adding to this was a sense of comedy often lost on horror productions which might in some instances lighten the audience's mood but in many cases added to the overall eeriness of the production.

Release Date: 1988-10-22

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 21

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Release Date: 1985-09-29

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 50