Jorge Zamacona (born December 30, 1959) is an American Screenwriter and producer. He worked extensively on the police drama and wrote the series' crossover episodes with the crime drama Law & Order. Zamacona co-created the police dramas and Wanted.
Zamacona is married to Blair Winters Zamacona and has three children.
In 1988, Zamacona wrote the science fiction film World Gone Wild. The film was set in a post apocalyptic future where water is a precious resource.
In 1996, Zamacona was hired as a co-executive producer and writer for new Fox Network science fiction series Millennium. The series was created by Chris Carter following the success of Carter's earlier series The X-Files. The series follows a law enforcement consultant working for a mysterious organization known as the Millennium Group. Zamacona wrote two episodes for the first season; "Kingdom Come" and "The Wild and the Innocent". Zamacona left the series at the end of the first season.
In 1997, Zamacona returned to Homicide and Law & Order to write a further crossover storyline. He wrote the eighth season Law & Order episode "Baby, It's You" and the Homicide episode "Baby, It's You: Part 2".
In 1999, Zamacona served as an executive producer and writer for CBS pilot St. Michael's Crossing but the network did not order a series.
In fall 2002, Zamacona was hired as a writer for the third season of NBC emergency services drama Third Watch. The series was created by retired Chicago police officer Edward Allen Bernero and television producer John Wells. The series focused on police officer, firefighters and paramedics working the same shift as one another in New York City. Bernero wrote the teleplay for the episode "Superheroes: Part 1" based on a story he co-wrote with Zamacona. Zamacona co-wrote the episode "The Unforgiven" with producer Scott A. Williams and executive story editor Julie Hébert. Zamacona left the series at the end of the third season having contributed to two episodes.
In 2003, Zamacona reunited with his Homicide colleague Tom Fontana as a supervising producer on the sixth and final season of HBO prison drama Oz. Oz centers on prisoners in a high security unit. The series was created by Fontana and ended in February 2003.
In fall 2003, Zamacona co-created the ABC police drama with Louis St. Clair. Zamacona worked as an executive producer and writer for the series. The series centred on a rookie police officer in Los Angeles County. The other executive producers were Aaron Spelling and E. Duke Vincent. The series was canceled after airing twelve episodes although fifteen episodes were produced. Zamacona contributed to thirteen of those episodes as a writer. Zamacona wrote the teleplay for the pilot episode "Brothers in Arms" from a story he co-wrote with St. Clair. Supervising producer Denitria Harris-Lawrence wrote the teleplay for the episodes "A Hard Day's Night", "Mercy, Mercy Me" and "Love Don't Love Nobody" from stories by Zamacona and St. Clair. Co-executive producer Frank Renzulli wrote the teleplay for the episode "Gun of a Son" from a story by Zamacona and St. Clair. Zamacona wrote the teleplay for the episodes "Badlands", "Blood Sugar Sex Magik", "The Wild Bunch" and "Wild and the Innocent" from stories he co-wrote with St. Clair. Renzulli and Zamacona co-wrote the episodes "Late for School" and "Gimme Shelter". Bradford Winters wrote the teleplay for the episode "Flirtin' with Disaster" from a story by Zamacona and St. Clair. Zamacona wrote the episode "Gypsy Road" solo.
In 2004, Zamacona served as an executive producer for the television feature Silverlake. The film starred Kerr Smith.
Zamacona and St. Clair created a second series in fall 2005. The police drama Wanted aired on the TNT network. Zamacona once again served as an executive producer and writer for the project. Wanted follows a multilateral police taskforce charged with tracking the 100 most wanted criminals. The series other executive producers were again Spelling and Vincent. Zamacona wrote the teleplay for the pilot from a story he co-wrote with St. Clair. Zamacona wrote the teleplay for the episode "The Wild Bunch" from a story he co-wrote with St. Clair. Brian Logan wrote the teleplay for the episode "Click, Click, Boom" from a story by Zamacona and St. Clair.
Zamacona participated in the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike. He supported royalties for writers based on online streaming of episodes they had written.
In 2009, Zamacona became a consulting producer and writer for the ABC police drama The Unusuals. The series was created by Noah Hawley and focused on detectives in the New York homicide unit. The series was canceled after ten episodes. Zamacona wrote the episode "The Dentist".
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