Chris Brancato (Writing)
Little is known about Chris Brancato, a figure with a modest footprint in Writing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
Hotel Cocaine
The story of Roman Compte, a Cuban exile and general manager of The Mutiny Hotel, the glamorous epicenter of the Miami cocaine scene of late '70s and early '80s. The Mutiny Hotel was Casablanca on cocaine.
Release Date: 2024-06-16
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 8
Vote Count: 38
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
Inspired by the music and subjects featured in the series “Godfather of Harlem,” this documentary series brings alive the dramatic true story of Harlem and its music during the 1960s, and connects that history to our present moment.
Release Date: 2020-11-08
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 1
Godfather of Harlem
Loosely based on infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson, who in the early 1960s returned from ten years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy attempts to regain his piece of Harlem.
Release Date: 2019-09-29
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 612
Narcos: Mexico
See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.
Release Date: 2018-11-16
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 1349
Narcos
A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.
Release Date: 2015-08-28
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 30
Vote Count: 2878
Hannibal
Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him with a highly respected psychiatrist – a man with a taste for the criminal minded – Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
Release Date: 2013-04-04
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 2541
Terra Nova
In the year 2149, the world is dying. The planet is overdeveloped and overcrowded, with the majority of plant and animal life extinct. The future of mankind is in jeopardy, and its only hope for survival is in the distant past. An ordinary family goes on an extraordinary journey back in time to prehistoric Earth as a part of a massive expedition to save the human race.
Release Date: 2011-09-26
Department: Production
Job: Consulting Producer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 782
North Shore
North Shore is an American prime-time soap opera It centered around the staff and guests of the fictional Grand Waimea Hotel and Resort on Oahu's North Shore in Hawaii.
Release Date: 2004-06-14
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 20
Vote Count: 16
Tru Calling
A university graduate working in the city morgue is able to repeat the same day over again to prevent murders or other disasters.
Release Date: 2003-10-30
Department: Production
Job: Consulting Producer
Episode Count: 11
Vote Count: 243
Miracles
Miracles follows Paul Callan, an investigator of modern miracles for the Catholic Church who questions his faith after repeatedly finding mundane explanations for various supposed phenomena. After he witnesses a true, supernatural miracle that saves his life, only for his findings to be dismissed on a lack of evidence, Paul leaves behind the Church and is approached by Alva Keel to join his organization Sodalitas Quaerito, investigating and cataloguing "unexplainable" phenomena. Along with former police officer Evelyn Santos, Paul and Alva attempt to battle the impending "darkness" before it's too late.
Release Date: 2003-01-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 12
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 Date: 2002-09-29
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 17
Stealing Harvard
John and his girlfriend have vowed to marry once they save $30,000 for their dream house. But the minute they achieve their financial goal, John finds out his niece has been accepted at Harvard, and he's reminded of his promise to pay for her tuition (nearly $30,000). John's friend Duff convinces him to turn to petty crime to make the payment … but Duff's hare-brained schemes spin quickly out of control.
Release Date: 2002-09-13
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 136
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
Release Date: 2001-09-30
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 346
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 Date: 1999-09-20
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 3882
First Wave
Framed for murder and on the run, a former thief struggles to expose the vanguard of an alien invasion with the help of a conspiracy theorist and newly discovered prophecies of Nostradamus.
Release Date: 1998-09-09
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 19
Vote Count: 56
Species II
Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross isn't exactly himself. He's slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity with one goal -- to procreate with human women! When countless women suffer gruesome deaths after bearing half-alien offspring, scientist Laura Baker and hired assassin Press Lennox use Eve, a more tempered alien clone, to find Ross and his brood. Before long Eve escapes to mate with Ross.
Release Date: 1998-04-10
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 715
Hoodlum
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and must resist an invasion from a merciless mobster.
Release Date: 1997-08-27
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 197
Sherlock Holmes 3
The continuation of the Sherlock Holmes story.
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
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: 1
Vote Count: 211
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 Date: 1993-09-10
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 3163
Beverly Hills, 90210
Follow the lives of a group of teenagers living in the upscale, star-studded community of Beverly Hills, California and attending the fictitious West Beverly Hills High School and, subsequently, the fictitious California University after graduation.
Release Date: 1990-10-04
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 736
Ishtar
Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.
Release Date: 1987-05-15
Department: Production
Job: Producer's Assistant
Vote Count: 150
Drift
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 1