The Producers!

Ed Self

Ed Self began his producing-writing career during seasons three through five of "Emergency!" at Universal Studios. During that time, he also produced the pilot for the "Sierra" series (photo below). He next created the CBS series "Code R" for Warner Brothers, followed by the "Makin' It" pilot at Paramount. Ed followed these productions with one season as a development executive at QM Productions before producing a series of television movies.

Included in Ed's movie credits are "The Incident" (Emmy and Christopher Awards); "Against Her Will: Incident in Baltimore" (Christopher Award); and "September Gun" (Western Heritage Award). As Supervising Producer, he worked on "Sarah, Plain and Tall" (highest rated Hallmark Hall of Fame of all time, and highest rated network movie of the 1990's) and the sequel "Winter's End."

The first TV movie Ed produced, "Help Wanted: Male," guaranteed a 47 share for CBS and was the second highest movie of the season. Other notable projects are "The Yearling" and "The Inheritance" (Kraft Premier movies), "The Fire Next Time" (a CBS mini-series), and "In The Lake Of The Woods" (Fox Network).

Ed also created a half hour syndicated series ("Learning The Ropes"), spent two years as Executive Vice President for Disney's Television Division, and was Executive in Charge of Production for five Sunday afternoon movies on CBS.

Ed is currently developing a series with Las Vegas Fire and Rescue along with "Emergency!" Producer Gino Grimaldi. He is also writing a feature script.

Gino Grimaldi

After graduating from the University of Southern California with a degree in Cinema, Gino secured an editing position in the Editorial Department at Universal Studios. He was a major force in bringing to Universal Studios “Chrysler Presents” in the Bob Hope Christmas and Vietnam specials. Two of these productions won an Emmy for Outstanding Variety Special.

In 1971, Gino became the Associate Producer of Emergency!, and soon after advanced to Producer. Following Emergency! Gino went on to co-produce and direct second unit for four pilots and 4 four hour mini-series: “The Immigrants,” nominated for a Golden Globe Award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, “The Rebels,” and “The Seekers,” both honored by the National Scholastic Federation, and “Condominium.”

After the completion of his association with Universal Studios, Gino partnered with Robert Blake to produce Blake’s television series, “Joe Dancer,” and the critically acclaimed television remake of John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men,” which won the Writer’s Guild Award for best television movie, and an endorsement from the National Scholastic Federation.

Returning to Universal Studios, Gino produced the television movie, “Midnight Lace,” and a two hour pilot, "Code of Vengeance." This was followed by producing and directing first and second unit on the television series "Knight Rider," which was on the air for four years.

Gino then opened his own production company, Midnight Productions, Inc. to develop and produce his own projects. Two projects were sold to CBS: “The Master Detective,” a half hour series, and a two-hour television movie adapted from the novel Going Downtown called “The War Against Hanoi and Washington.” This was followed by a production deal with Fu Ngai Film Productions, to produce a feature motion picture entitled “Shanghai: 1920.”

Several years later, Gino produced the television movie “A Promise Kept: The Oksana Baiul Story” for CBS and Hallmark Hall of Fame.

Currently, Gino has teamed up with former Emergency!" Producer Ed Self to develop a series with Las Vegas Fire and Rescue.

Hannah Shearer

Hannah Louise Shearer is a producer and writer of many television series and movies. She started her television career on the police drama “Adam-12,” and later, on the series “Emergency!,” became the first female television producer at Universal Studios. She also supervised the series “Knight Rider,” “Quincy,” the mini-series “The Rebels,” “The Seekers,” The Immigrants,” and “Condominium,” as well as numerous television pilots.

As Executive Story Editor for “Star Trek, the Next Generation,” Hannah was praised for her ability to evoke emotion and create humanistic stories set in the vast arena of space.

As an independent writer and producer, she created “Nashville Beat,” and worked on the series “Cagney and Lacey,” “Hyperion Bay,” “Deep Space Nine,” “Tales of the South Seas,” “Walker: Texas Ranger,” MacGyver,” “Pacific Blue,” “VIP,” “General Hospital,” and many others.

Hannah is a frequent columnist for Written By, the Maggie-award-winning Journal of the Writer’s Guild of America, Inc. Hannah is active in the Writers Guild of America, West, Inc., and was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Producers Guild of America Inc.

Hannah is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, where she majored in journalism while working on the Daily Californian newspaper. A native Californian, she now lives in Sherman Oaks.

Currently Hannah writes for the daytime soap opera “Port Charles.”

Editors Note: If you haven’t seen Port Charles…check it out! It’s fantastic! Not your normal soap opera…..it’s daytime television with a sci-fi twist! Port Charles airs Monday-Friday on ABC. Check your local listings.