Glenn Gordon Caron
{{short description|American television director, producer and writer (born 1954)}}
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Glenn Gordon Caron (born April 3, 1954), sometimes credited as Glenn Caron, is an American writer, director, and producer, best known for the television series Moonlighting in the 1980s and Medium in the 2000s. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Biography
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Caron was born to a Jewish family{{Cite web |last=Howowitz |first=Joy |title=The Madcap Behind 'Moonlighting' |work=The New York Times |date=March 30, 1986 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/30/magazine/the-madcap-behind-moonlighting.html |access-date=October 31, 2018 |archive-date=June 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190627125422/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/30/magazine/the-madcap-behind-moonlighting.html |url-status=live }} in Oceanside, New York. After graduating from the State University of New York at Geneseo in 1975, Caron studied with Del Close and The Second City in Chicago before working at an advertising agency.[http://www.allbusiness.com/services/amusement-recreation-services/4573013-1.html Glenn Gordon Caron, Creator and Executive Producer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200318113129/https://www.allbusiness.com/services/amusement-recreation-services/4573013-1.html |date=March 18, 2020 }}, AllBusiness.com; accessed December 5, 2017.
While at the ad agency he was invited by NBC to write a pilot for the network. The pilot did not receive a series order, but Caron's work impressed writer-producer James L. Brooks, who invited him to join the writing staff of Taxi, although he only worked on one episode.
Caron subsequently coproduced the first 12 episodes of Remington Steele (NBC, 1982-'87) before leaving to form his own company, Picturemaker Productions. Caron created Moonlighting (ABC, 1985-'89), a worldwide hit that revitalized the career of Cybill Shepherd and launched the career of Bruce Willis. Between its third and fourth seasons, Caron directed his first feature film, Clean and Sober (1988), starring Michael Keaton. He was fired by ABC from Moonlighting before the start of its fifth (and final) season, reportedly because Shepherd demanded it.{{cite web |last1=Clark |first1=Kenneth R. |title=Why 'Moonlighting' Went Bust |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-05-21-8902030008-story.html |website=Chicago Tribune |publisher=Tribune Publishing Company |access-date=22 December 2018 |date=May 21, 1989 |archive-date=April 7, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190407135335/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-05-21-8902030008-story.html |url-status=live }} Caron then directed three more feature films — Wilder Napalm (1993), starring Dennis Quaid and Debra Winger, and written by Vince Gilligan, who later created the AMC series Breaking Bad; the Warren Beatty-Annette Bening vehicle Love Affair (1994), a remake of the 1939 film of the same name; and Picture Perfect (1997), starring Jennifer Aniston — before returning to television in 1999 as the creator of the short-lived series Now and Again (CBS, 1999-2000).{{cite web|work=The New York Times|title=Just a Regular Guy, Who Can Outrun a Car|first=Craig|last=Tomashoff|date=December 12, 1999|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/12/tv/cover-story-just-a-regular-guy-who-can-outrun-a-car.html|access-date=February 19, 2017|archive-date=August 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815162629/http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/12/tv/cover-story-just-a-regular-guy-who-can-outrun-a-car.html|url-status=live}}
In 2001 Fox ordered 13 episodes of the Caron-created romantic comedy Fling. Seven episodes were shot, but the network became unhappy with the direction of the series during production and canceled it before any of those episodes could be broadcast.{{cite web |last1=Adalian |first1=Josef |title=Fox's 'Fling' flung |url=https://variety.com/2001/tv/news/fox-s-fling-flung-1117799042/ |website=Variety |access-date=22 December 2018 |date=May 9, 2001 |archive-date=September 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180909073827/https://variety.com/2001/tv/news/fox-s-fling-flung-1117799042/ |url-status=live }} Four years later Caron created Medium for NBC. He also served as executive producer of the show, wrote several episodes and directed the series's pilot episode. It ran for seven seasons, with the last two airing on CBS.{{cite news|url=http://thenewschronicle.com/cbs-cancels-medium/111909575|last=Bitalac|first=Labelle|title=CBS cancels Medium|website=The News Chronicle|date=November 19, 2010|access-date=2014-06-04|archive-date=November 23, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101123153246/http://thenewschronicle.com/cbs-cancels-medium/111909575/|url-status=live}}
In 2008 Caron wrote a pilot for CBS titled The Meant to Be
In 2013 Caron wrote a pilot for a proposed Fox series titled The Middle Man. Set in the 1960s, a Boston FBI agent and his Irish-American informant take on the Italian-American mafia. Ben Affleck was attached to direct the pilot episode,[https://web.archive.org/web/20130915213910/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/09/13/fox-gives-pilot-order-to-crime-drama-the-middle-man-executive-produced-by-ben-affleck-glenn-gordon-caron/202640/ FOX Gives Pilot Order to Crime Drama 'The Middle Man' Executive Produced by Ben Affleck & Glenn Gordon Caron], tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com, September 13, 2013 but it was never filmed. The following year Fox ordered a pilot for The Cure, a medical drama to be cowritten and coproduced by Caron and New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell,{{cite web |last1=Andreeva |first1=Nellie |title=Fox Takes 'The Cure,' Put Pilot From Malcolm Gladwell, Glenn Gordon Caron, Imagine |url=https://deadline.com/2014/08/fox-medical-drama-malcolm-gladwell-glenn-gordon-caron-imagine-put-pilot-824290/ |website=Deadline |publisher=Penske Business Media, LLC |access-date=22 December 2018 |date=August 25, 2014 |archive-date=December 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181223073559/https://deadline.com/2014/08/fox-medical-drama-malcolm-gladwell-glenn-gordon-caron-imagine-put-pilot-824290/ |url-status=live }} but it too was never filmed. Caron was also attached to write a pilot for ITV Studios in 2016 based on Alan Glynn's novel Paradime.{{cite web |last1=O'Connell |first1=Michael |title='Moonlighting' Creator Adapting Alan Glynn Novel for ITV Studios America |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/moonlighting-creator-adapting-alan-glynn-893237 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=28 November 2019 |date=12 May 2016 |archive-date=November 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191128144107/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/moonlighting-creator-adapting-alan-glynn-893237 |url-status=live }}
Caron wrote and produced episodes of the first and second seasons of the FX series Tyrant, and in the spring of 2017 he joined CBS's Bull as a consulting producer before becoming the series's showrunner at the beginning of season two.{{cite web |last1=Andreeva |first1=Nellie |title=Glenn Gordon Caron Tapped As New 'Bull' Showrunner Under CBS TV Studios Deal |url=https://deadline.com/2017/03/glenn-gordon-caron-new-bull-showrunner-overall-deal-cbs-studios-1202047310/ |website=Deadline |publisher=Penske Business Media, LLC |access-date=21 December 2018 |date=March 20, 2017 |archive-date=March 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301113748/https://deadline.com/2017/03/glenn-gordon-caron-new-bull-showrunner-overall-deal-cbs-studios-1202047310/ |url-status=live }} In May 2021, it was announced that Caron would be departing Bull, as well as ending his deal with CBS Studios.{{cite web |last1=Petski |first1=Denise |last2=Patten |first2=Dominic |title=Glenn Gordon Caron Out As 'Bull' Showrunner, Deal With CBS Studios Ends |url=https://deadline.com/2021/05/glenn-gordon-caron-out-bull-showrunner-deal-with-cbs-studios-ends-1234762232/ |website=Deadline |access-date=22 May 2021 |date=May 21, 2021 |archive-date=May 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521233340/https://deadline.com/2021/05/glenn-gordon-caron-out-bull-showrunner-deal-with-cbs-studios-ends-1234762232/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last=Nemetz |first=Dave |title=Bull Boss, Co-Star Freddy Rodriguez Both Out After Workplace Investigation |url=https://tvline.com/2021/05/21/bull-freddy-rodriguez-leaving-glenn-gordon-caron-fired-cbs/ |website=TV Line |access-date=22 May 2021 |date=May 21, 2021 |archive-date=May 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210522001652/https://tvline.com/2021/05/21/bull-freddy-rodriguez-leaving-glenn-gordon-caron-fired-cbs/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last=Otterson |first=Joe |title='Bull' Showrunner Glenn Gordon Caron Exits Series |url=https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/bull-showrunner-glenn-gordon-caron-1234979182/ |website=Variety |access-date=22 May 2021 |date=May 21, 2021 |archive-date=May 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210522204111/https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/bull-showrunner-glenn-gordon-caron-1234979182/ |url-status=live }}
Awards
Caron received the 2007 Outstanding Television Writer Award at the Austin Film Festival.{{cite web |title=Honored Guests at 14th Annual Austin Film Festival |url=https://austinfilmfestival.com/news/2007/10/02/honored-guests-at-14th-annual-austin-film-festival/ |website=Austin Film Festival |access-date=22 December 2018 |date=October 2, 2007 |archive-date=December 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181223034619/https://austinfilmfestival.com/news/2007/10/02/honored-guests-at-14th-annual-austin-film-festival/ |url-status=live }} He also won a Writers Guild of America award for his 1985 pilot script for Moonlighting and was nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards for Moonlighting between 1986 and 1987.{{cite web |title=Glenn Gordon Caron: Awards |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0139111/awards?ref_=nm_awd |website=IMDb |publisher=Amazon |access-date=22 December 2018 |archive-date=June 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230614000636/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0139111/awards/?ref_=nm_awd |url-status=live }}
Personal life
Caron has been married to his second wife, Tina DiJoseph, since 2006; they have one child. Caron has three children from his first marriage. He is the founder-owner of Picturemaker Productions.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/exec/glenn-gordon-caron|title=Glenn Caron|website=Variety|date=December 5, 1948|access-date=December 20, 2017|archive-date=July 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170724022656/http://variety.com/exec/glenn-gordon-caron/|url-status=live}}
Sexual harassment controversy
On December 19, 2018, The Boston Globe published an op-ed by actress Eliza Dushku in which she claimed she was fired by Caron from the CBS series Bull in 2017 after she confronted its star, Michael Weatherly, about sexually charged remarks he had made to her while filming the final three episodes of the show's first season.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/12/19/eliza-dushku-responds-what-happened-cbs-took-job-and-because-objected-being-sexually-harassed-was-fired/OCh7h0pwg4Aq7xfwOUasyO/story.html|title=Eliza Dushku: I worked at CBS. I didn't want to be sexually harassed. I was fired - the Boston Globe|website=The Boston Globe|access-date=December 20, 2018|archive-date=January 22, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220122192840/https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/12/19/eliza-dushku-responds-what-happened-cbs-took-job-and-because-objected-being-sexually-harassed-was-fired/OCh7h0pwg4Aq7xfwOUasyO/story.html|url-status=live}} Caron had been hired as a consulting producer for those three episodes, prior to becoming Bull's showrunner and an executive producer for season two. Dushku had been expected to join the series full-time in season two. CBS paid her $9.5 million to settle her claims of wrongful dismissal and sexual harassment.{{cite web |last1=Abrams |first1=Rachel, and Koblin, John |title=CBS Paid the Actress Eliza Dushku $9.5 Million to Settle Harassment Claims |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/business/media/cbs-bull-weatherly-dushku-sexual-harassment.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=21 December 2018 |date=December 13, 2018 |archive-date=December 14, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181214072922/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/business/media/cbs-bull-weatherly-dushku-sexual-harassment.html |url-status=live }} Dushku signed a nondisclosure agreement as part of her settlement, but after news of the settlement leaked and Weatherly and Caron gave statements to The New York Times — "The idea that our not exercising her option to join the series was in any way punitive just couldn't be further from the truth," said Caron — Dushku said she felt compelled to respond, writing, "The narrative propagated by CBS, actor Michael Weatherly, and writer-producer Glenn Gordon Caron is deceptive and in no way fits with how they treated me on the set of the television show Bull and retaliated against me for simply asking to do my job without relentless sexual harassment."{{cite web |last1=Buell |first1=Spencer |title=Breaking Her Silence, Eliza Dushku Shares New Details of Harassment |url=https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2018/12/20/eliza-dushku-shares-details-harassment/ |website=Boston Magazine |publisher=Metro Corp. |access-date=22 December 2018 |date=December 20, 2018 |archive-date=December 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181223073516/https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2018/12/20/eliza-dushku-shares-details-harassment/ |url-status=live }} Prior to his exit from Bull in 2021, CBS launched an investigation regarding the departures of multiple writers from the show and whether or not Caron allegedly "fostered a disrespectful work environment during his four-year tenure."{{cite web |last1=Kiefer |first1=Halle |title=Showrunner Glenn Gordon Caron Out at CBS's Bull Following Internal Investigation |url=https://www.vulture.com/2021/05/bull-showrunner-glenn-gordon-cardon-out-at-cbs.html |website=Vulture |publisher=New York Magazine |access-date=22 May 2021 |date=May 21, 2021 |archive-date=May 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210522202041/https://www.vulture.com/2021/05/bull-showrunner-glenn-gordon-cardon-out-at-cbs.html |url-status=live }}
Filmography
= Television =
| class="wikitable"
! Year ! Title !width=65|Director !width=65|Writer !width=65|Creator !width=65|Executive ! Notes |
| 1979
| Taxi | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{no}} | Episode "The Great Race" |
| 1980
| {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{no}} | Episode "Harry Kisses Death on the Mouth" |
| 1980–1981
| {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{no}} | Episodes "Knowing Her", "Grand Illusion" and "La Strada"; |
| 1982
| Fame | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{no}} | Episode "Alone in a Crowd" |
| 1982–1983
| {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{no}} | 4 episodes; |
| 1985–1988
| {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | Wrote 7 episodes; |
| 1999–2000
| {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | Directed episode "Origins"; |
| 2001
| Fling | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{yes}} | Unaired |
| 2008
| The Meant to Be's | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{yes}} | Unaired pilot |
| 2005–2011
| Medium | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | Directed "Pilot"; Wrote 10 episodes |
| 2014–2015
| Tyrant | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{yes}} | 4 episodes |
| 2017–2021
| Bull | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{yes}} | Directed 4 episodes; |
TV movies
| class="wikitable"
! Year ! Title ! Writer ! Executive ! Notes |
| 1984
| Concrete Beat | {{yes}} | {{yes}} |rowspan=2|Unsold pilot |
| 1986
| Long Time Gone | {{yes}} | {{yes}} |
= Film =
Short film
| class="wikitable"
! Year ! Title !width=65|Director !width=65|Writer ! Note |
| 1989
| {{yes}} | {{yes}} | Created for Disney World's Epcot Center |
Feature film
| class="wikitable"
! Year ! Title !width=65|Director !width=65|Writer |
| 1988
| {{yes}} | {{no}} |
| 1993
| {{yes}} | {{no}} |
| 1994
| {{yes}} | {{no}} |
| 1997
| {{yes}} | {{yes}} |
References
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External links
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- {{cite web|title=Glenn Goron Caron biographical data|work=DavidAnd Maddie.com|url=http://www.davidandmaddie.com/ggcaron.htm|access-date=July 18, 2005|archive-date=August 29, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050829135424/http://www.davidandmaddie.com/ggcaron.htm|url-status=live}}
- [http://www.tvweek.com/tvmojoe/2009/05/medium-man-to-nbc-chuck-off.php TVWeek] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090601071323/http://www.tvweek.com/tvmojoe/2009/05/medium-man-to-nbc-chuck-off.php |date=June 1, 2009 }}
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