Jim Finnerty
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Jim Finnerty is an award-winning American television producer. He worked on all seven seasons of the Peabody Award Winning NBC police drama Homicide: Life on the Street
. He often works with Homicide executive producer Tom Fontana
.
in 2000. He remained the series unit production manager throughout its run and was responsible for budgetary concerns at production meetings.
While still working on Homicide Finnerty also served as a co-executive producer on the first season of Tom Fontana
's HBO prison drama Oz
. He returned to Oz as an executive producer for the sixth and final season in 2002.
He worked as an executive producer and unit production manager on a second police drama with Fontana in 2000 - UPN's The Beat. He also served as an executive producer with Fontana on the television movie Shot in the Heart
, which was scripted by Homicide writer Frank Pugliese
in 2001.
He was an executive producer and unit production manager for Fontana's short-lived courtroom drama The Jury
in 2004. He received the same credits for Fontana's 2008 drama series The Bedford Diaries
. He was also an executive producer for Fontana's pilot M. O. N. Y. which was not picked up to series in 2008.
Homicide: Life on the Street
Homicide: Life on the Street is an American police procedural television series chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Homicide Unit. It ran for seven seasons on NBC from 1993 to 1999, and was succeeded by a TV movie, which also acted as the de-facto series finale...
. He often works with Homicide executive producer Tom Fontana
Tom Fontana
Tom Fontana is an American writer and producer.-TV career:Fontana has been a writer/producer for such series as Oz , The Jury, The Beat, The Bedford Diaries, Homicide: Life on the Street, St...
.
Biography
Finnerty was the unit production manager and a supervising producer for the series pilot episode in 1993. He reprised this role when the show returned for a full season. He remained in this position until he was promoted to co-executive producer for the fourth season in 1995. He was awarded a plaque from the Director's Guild of America for his work as unit production manager when the episode "The Documentary" won the award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series. He was promoted to executive producer for the seventh and final season in 1998. He was also credited as an executive producer of the feature length follow-up Homicide: The MovieHomicide: The Movie
Homicide: The Movie is a television movie that aired 13 February 2000, one year after the completion of the American police drama television series Homicide: Life on the Street...
in 2000. He remained the series unit production manager throughout its run and was responsible for budgetary concerns at production meetings.
While still working on Homicide Finnerty also served as a co-executive producer on the first season of Tom Fontana
Tom Fontana
Tom Fontana is an American writer and producer.-TV career:Fontana has been a writer/producer for such series as Oz , The Jury, The Beat, The Bedford Diaries, Homicide: Life on the Street, St...
's HBO prison drama Oz
Oz (TV series)
Oz is an American television drama series created by Tom Fontana, who also wrote or co-wrote all of the series' 56 episodes . It was the first one-hour dramatic television series to be produced by premium cable network HBO. Oz premiered on July 12, 1997 and ran for six seasons...
. He returned to Oz as an executive producer for the sixth and final season in 2002.
He worked as an executive producer and unit production manager on a second police drama with Fontana in 2000 - UPN's The Beat. He also served as an executive producer with Fontana on the television movie Shot in the Heart
Shot in the Heart
Shot in the Heart is a memoir written by Mikal Gilmore, then a senior contributing editor at Rolling Stone, about his tumultuous childhood in a dysfunctional family, and his brother Gary Gilmore's eventual execution by firing squad in 1977 for a convenience store murder he committed in Provo,...
, which was scripted by Homicide writer Frank Pugliese
Frank Pugliese
Frankie Pugliese a TV writer and artistic director. He won a WGA Award for Homicide: Life on the Street episode Night of the Living Dead. He is also a playwright.- Sources :...
in 2001.
He was an executive producer and unit production manager for Fontana's short-lived courtroom drama The Jury
The Jury (TV series)
The Jury is an American legal drama television series that was broadcast by the Fox Network in 2004. Each week, in the same New York City courtroom, a new 12-person jury deliberates over a criminal case...
in 2004. He received the same credits for Fontana's 2008 drama series The Bedford Diaries
The Bedford Diaries
The Bedford Diaries is an American television series that premiered March 29, 2006 on The WB and concluded its first season on May 10, 2006. It was canceled on May 18, 2006. The series was created by Tom Fontana and Julie Martin....
. He was also an executive producer for Fontana's pilot M. O. N. Y. which was not picked up to series in 2008.