Sam Egan
1 quotesJournalist · United States Of America · Male
Sam Egan is a journalist, and a screenwriter and producer for television. 2Career His credits include writing and producing for such shows as: Quincy, M.E., The Incredible Hulk, The Fall Guy, Northern Exposure, The Outer Limits, Sanctuary and Jeremiah. He is the son of a holocaust survivor and based The Outer Limits episode "Tribunal" on his father's experience in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp where his father's first wife and daughter were killed by the Nazis. As a journalist, Egan has written for Rolling Stone Magazine and was editor of the Arts Magazine The Every Other Weekly. Egan has most recently worked for Shaw's Canadian Sci-Fi Series "Continuum" and "Beloved Mr. Fox," along with Alexander McCall Smith, as a creative consultant. He is also the developer for Television of Robert Rotenburg's "Old City Hall" for CTV. Before working here, he was the creative consultant on the Canadian mini-series "Bloodletting and Other Mirculous Cures". Currently, he is working on the development of two internet series, "The Node" for Trifecta productions and "State of Syn" for Shaftesbury Films as well as writing for the Netflix / City series Between. Prior, he worked for CTV and FOX International as Executive Producer of season two of the Listener. He was previously Co-Executive Producer of ABC's "V." 2Awards and honors His work on "Sanctuary" received a nomination for a Leo Award in Canad