Alex Gansa (Writer)

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Some of this year's most talked about talent open up about the challenges and triumphs of creating critically acclaimed series and performances.

Release Date2015-08-02

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count19

Homeland

CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her long-time mentor Saul Berenson, Carrie fearlessly risks everything, including her personal well-being and even sanity, at every turn.

Release Date2011-10-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count23

Vote Count2601

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 Date1993-09-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count5

Vote Count3609

24

Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.

Release Date2001-11-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count1800

Numb3rs

Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime as an FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a very different perspective.

Release Date2005-01-23

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count8

Vote Count439

Dawson's Creek

Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama that portrays the fictional lives of a close-knit group of teenagers through high school and college.

Release Date1998-01-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count611

Accused

In this crime anthology series, viewers discover how an ordinary person got caught up in an extraordinary situation, ultimately revealing how one wrong turn leads to another, until it’s too late to turn back. Told from the defendant’s point of view, each episode opens in a courtroom on the accused without knowing their crime or how they ended up on trial.

Release Date2023-01-22

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count15

Vote Count77

Spenser: For Hire

Mystery and suspense series based on Robert Parker's "Spenser" novels. Spenser, a private investigator living in Boston, gets involved in a new murder mystery each episode.

Release Date1985-09-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count33

The Wizard

The Wizard is a live-action, family friendly, action/adventure series created by Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz, and Paul B. Radin. The series included lessons in diversity, friendship, imagination, respect, and never giving up.

Release Date1986-09-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count11

Wolf Lake

"There are those among us who can move at will between the world of the wolves and the world of the humans. My people call them skin walkers." Seattle police detective John Kanin has a problem. He's in love, but shortly after agreeing to marry him, his girlfriend disapears. His search leads to her home town, where people are clearly hiding information from him. One of the things they are hiding is the fact that they are all werewolves, as is John's girlfriend, Ruby.

Release Date2001-09-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count25

Maximum Bob

Maximum Bob is a short-lived television series that debuted in 1998 on ABC TV. Starring Beau Bridges, the show was based on Elmore Leonard's 1991 novel with the same title.

Release Date1998-08-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count3

Beauty and the Beast

Savvy Assistant District Attorney Catherine Chandler is saved by a noble, beast-like man named Vincent, who lives in a secret, utopian community beneath New York City. They share a psychic bond, and he protects her from above.

Release Date1987-09-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count10

Vote Count276

Sisters

The Reed sisters of Winnetka, Illinois, are a close-knit group. Alex, Georgie, Teddy, and Frankie navigate the waters of life's triumphs and tragedies with the help of their mom, Bea. And no matter what befalls them, they know they can count on their sisters to help pull them through. (Sisters is an Emmy Award-winning television drama.)

Release Date1991-05-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count11