CNN correspondent-turned-screenwriter Bryce Zabel has been the creator and show runner of prime time series, written produced feature films, run the TV Academy, taught at USC, won the WGA award, authored a book and introduced on-air such celebrities as Walter Cronkite and Tom Hanks.
Every pilot ever written by Zabel that has been produced has also gone on to series. He has received the Writers Guild on-screen “created by” or “developed by” credit on five TV drama series including: NBC’s Emmy-winning (main titles) science fiction series Dark Skies (1996), FOX’s African-American superhero show M.A.N.T.I.S. (1994); the syndicated comic/film adaptation The Crow: Stairway to Heaven (1998), CTV’s newsroom drama E.N.G. (1989) and CBS’s medical franchise Kay O’Brien (1986). His other series work includes L.A. Law (1986); Life Goes on (1989) and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993). Three of his series have been major DVD box set releases.
He became a book author in 2010 with the publication of A.D. After Disclosure: The People’s Guide to Life After Contact, written in collaboration with UFO historian Richard M. Dolan.
Twice nominated by the WGA for outstanding screen-writing, Zabel’s work has also been nominated by the Mystery Writers of America, Environmental Media Association and LA Area Emmy Awards. His nominated work includes the fan-favorite L.A. Law (1986) where Jimmy Smits‘ character defends baby-killers who get away with murder and the Dark Skies (1996) pilot about the Kennedy assassination which launched the NBC Saturday night programming concept.
Zabel began his career as a television news reporter in both Oregon and Arizona. He came to Los Angeles as an on-air correspondent for CNN where he covered presidential campaigns and space shuttle landings, among other stories. He met his wife in the office of the LA mayor during a news conference. As an on-air PBS reporter, he won several awards of his own for investigative journalism. He was one of the original group of producer/directors on ABC’s cutting edge reality magazine series, “Eye on LA”.
Zabel started his screen-writing career by combining that passion for journalism and television into his first script, E.N.G. (1989) and it changed his life. The spec pilot about “electronic news gathering” (TV news) launched 108 episodes of the hour drama for the CTV network, led to an overall development deal as a writer/producer for Orion TV.
Zabel attended high school in Hillsboro, Oregon and college at the University of Oregon in Eugene where he graduated with a BA degree in Broadcast Journalism.
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