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John Tinker Named ‘Hawthorne’ Showrunner

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday November 11, 2010 @ 7:00am PSTTags: Cable TV, Glen Mazzara, Hawthorne, Hawthorne Season 3, Jada Pinkett Smith, John Masius, TNT, TV, TV Deals
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Veteran writer-producer John Tinker has joined TNT’s medical drama Hawthorne. He will serve as executive producer/showrunner on the Jada Pinkett Smith-starring series’ upcoming third season. Tinker replaces Glen Mazzara who ran the series fin its second season. Production on Season 3 is scheduled to being in the spring.

On the Sony TV-produced Hawthorne, Tinker will serve as an executive producer alongside creator John Masius, Pinkett Smith, Miguel Melendez and Jamie Tarses. Tinker and Masius go back a long time. They worked together on St. Elsewhere, and in 1986, won an Emmy for co-writing an episode of the show with Tom Fontana. Meanwhile, Mazzara has a new project in the works with Sony TV, which received a scripted commitment from Fox. Mazzara is writing the project, a medical drama, and is executive producing with Peter Tolan.

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Official: TNT Renews Jada’s ‘Hawthorne’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday September 15, 2010 @ 11:04am PDTTags: Cable TV, Hawthorne, Hawthorne Renewal, Hawthorne Season 3, Jada Pinkett Smith, John Masius, TNT, TNT Renewals
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TNT has written a prescription for a third season of the powerful medical drama HAWTHORNE, starring and executive-produced by Jada Pinkett Smith (Collateral, The Matrix trilogy).  TNT has ordered 10 new episodes of the hit series, which is slated to return in 2011. Created by Emmy®

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