Tom Fontana Archives

As far as legacy sequels go, most probably didn't expect a follow-up to the 1990s/2000s iconic HBO prison drama Oz, but creator Tom Fontana, director Christoph Schrewe, and stars Dean Winters and Lee Tergeson will explore life after their characters' incarceration in the short film Zo One of the original series stars, Kirk Acevedo, took[...]

The Tom Fontana-created series ran for six seasons from 1997-2003, featuring an ensemble cast of Ernie Hudson, J.K Simmons, Lee Tergesen, Dean Winters, George Morfogen, Terry Kinney, Rita Moreno, Harold Perrineau, Eamonn Walker, Craig muMs, Luna Lauren Valez, Granville Adams, Kirk Acevedo, and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Hudson played Warden Leo Glynn, who had to deal with[...]

While the current generation was able to get a glimpse at what prison life can do to women in Jenji Kohan's Orange is the New Black on Netflix, Tom Fontana created Oz for HBO near the turn of the millennium in 1997 showing the lives of the incarcerated at a men's institution tackling various subjects[...]

Al Pacino | HBO (https://youtu.be/scI7dYdlzuY) Paterno is a Levinson/Fontana production of a Barry Levinson Film; executive produced by Levinson, Jason Sosnoff, Tom Fontana, Edward R Pressman, Rick Nicita and Lindsay Sloane Amy Herman produces, with the film produced in conjunction with Sony Pictures Television. Credit: HBO During HBO's presentation at January's Television Critics Association's (TCA) press event, Pacino[...]