1. Jason Katims is best known as the creator of several television series, including Relativity, Roswell, Friday Night Lights, Parenthood, About a Boy and Rise.
16 Facts About Jason Katims
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Jason Katims was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, and raised first in Crown Heights and later in Midwood.
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Jason Katims's father Robert Katims was an actor and a salesman; his mother Ruth Sandra Ohsie, an English and philosophy major, "did some teachings".
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Jason Katims married his high school sweetheart; they have two children, Phoebe and Sawyer Katims.
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Jason Katims created Relativity in 1996 but the TV series was cancelled after 17 episodes.
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Jason Katims worked on the NBC series Friday Night Lights as head writer and executive producer.
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Jason Katims was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best New Series at the February 2007 ceremony for his work on the first season of Friday Night Lights.
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Jason Katims was nominated for the WGA Award for Best Dramatic Series the following year at the February 2008 ceremony for his work on the second season of Friday Night Lights.
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Jason Katims was nominated for Best Dramatic Series a second time at the February 2009 ceremony for his work on the third season of Friday Night Lights.
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Jason Katims was nominated for the WGA Award for Best Drama Series for the third consecutive year at the February 2010 ceremony for his work on the fourth season.
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Jason Katims is the creator of and executive producer for another NBC series, Parenthood, based on the feature film of the same name and a short-lived TV series that followed; Jason Katims' series debuted in 2010 and ended in 2015.
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Jason Katims based that series' Max Braverman character on his life with his own son, who has Asperger syndrome.
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Jason Katims developed About a Boy, a 2014 TV series based on the novel of the same name, for NBC.
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Jason Katims has written a play, The Man Who Couldn't Dance and is a former member of Stagewrights, a playwriting collective in New York City.
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Jason Katims developed Almost Family, a 2019 TV series based on the Australian series Sisters, for Fox.
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On June 15,2020, Jason Katims is the writer of As We See It, based on Israeli series On the Spectrum for Amazon Prime Video.