Article: DRAMA `OZ' NEARS END.(News)

Article: Tom Fontana prepares to lock the doors at ...
Zap2It.com (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  May 10, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Unlike most TV producers, Tom Fontana was not surprised by the recent ... uncompromising HBO prison drama "Oz" was ending after the next run ... m not just talking about `Oz,' I'm talking about any television ... sharing." One question plaguing "Oz" viewers is the fate of jailed ...

Article: Living in the world of 'Oz'; Cable allows producer ...
The Boston Herald;  July 14, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Tom Fontana, the Emmy Award-winning television ... third season of Fontana's "Oz," a series set entirely in ... broadcast's network censors, "Oz," like "Sopranos," boasts ... have won it a loyal audience. "Oz" is a threatening, even disturbing ...

Article: An interview with Tom Fontana: the producer of ...
Corrections Today;  February 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Last year, HBO aired a series entitled "Oz," set in the fictitious Oswald Penitentiary. The eight ... traveled to New York to talk to the series' writer and producer, Tom Fontana, [also of NBC's "Homicide: Life on the Streets"] about ...

Article: Fall TV Preview CNN reconsiders movie cameos Roles in fictional ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  July 15, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Critic's notebook: CNN's president isn't sure he wants to see his reporters playing themselves in movies. "We're reconsidering our policy on that," Tom Johnson told critics Monday. "We'll have something out shortly." The issue has become something of a touchy one since the recent release of

Transcript: MEDIA OWNERSHIP:TOM FONTANA
Congressional Testimony;  May 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... 00-0000 Statement of Tom Fontana member Writers Guild ... opportunity to speak. My name is Tom Fontana. I am a Council Member ... from the gritty realism of Oz and Homicide: Life on ... Six years ago, I created Oz for Rysher, Incorporated ...

Article: Tom Fontana to Appear on Entertainment Panel at ...
Business Wire;  January 14, 2003 ;     600 words ...Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 14, 2003 Tom Fontana (Executive Producer and creator of OZ on HBO, Executive Producer and Writer Homicide: Life on the Street, Writer/Producer St. Elsewhere) will participate in the ...

Article: 'Hill Street' Meets 'Twin Peaks'; Tom Fontana's New ...
The Washington Post;  March 19, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... few scenes, writer-executive producer Tom Fontana was busy watching the action through a ... on "St. Elsewhere" and is penning "Oz," the gritty prison show airing on HBO ... Homicide' and, for that matter, 'Oz,' in its presentation of crime and the ...