Glenn Gordon Caron (born April 3, 1954), sometimes credited asGlenn Caron, is an American writer, director, and producer, best known for the television seriesMoonlighting in the 1980s andMedium in the 2000s. He lives inLos Angeles, California.

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Caron was born to aJewish family^[1] inOceanside, New York. After graduating from theState University of New York at Geneseo in 1975, Caron studied withDel Close andThe Second City in Chicago before working at an advertising agency.^[2]

While at the ad agency he was invited byNBC to write a pilot for the network. The pilot did not receive a series order, but Caron's work impressed writer-producerJames L. Brooks, who invited him to join the writing staff ofTaxi, although he only worked on one episode.

Caron subsequently coproduced the first 12 episodes ofRemington Steele (NBC, 1982-'87) before leaving to form his own company, Picturemaker Productions. Caron createdMoonlighting (ABC, 1985-'89), a worldwide hit that revitalized the career ofCybill Shepherd and launched the career ofBruce Willis. Between its third and fourth seasons, Caron directed his first feature film,Clean and Sober (1988), starringMichael Keaton. He was fired by ABC fromMoonlighting before the start of its fifth (and final) season, reportedly because Shepherd demanded it.^[3] Caron then directed three more feature films —Wilder Napalm (1993), starringDennis Quaid andDebra Winger, and written byVince Gilligan, who later created theAMC seriesBreaking Bad; theWarren Beatty-Annette Bening vehicleLove Affair (1994), a remake ofthe 1939 film of the same name; andPicture Perfect (1997), starringJennifer Aniston — before returning to television in 1999 as the creator of the short-lived seriesNow and Again (CBS, 1999-2000).^[4]

In 2001Fox ordered 13 episodes of the Caron-created romantic comedyFling. 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.^[5] Four years later Caron createdMedium forNBC. 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 onCBS.^[6]

In 2008 Caron wrote a pilot for CBS titledThe Meant to Be's,^[7] about a woman who dies only to find herself sent back to Earth to help people get their life back on track. However, it wasn't given a series order.

In 2013 Caron wrote a pilot for a proposed Fox series titledThe 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,^[8] but it was never filmed. The following year Fox ordered a pilot forThe Cure, a medical drama to be cowritten and coproduced by Caron and Canadian journalistMalcolm Gladwell,^[9] but it too was never filmed. Caron was also attached to write a pilot forITV Studios in 2016 based onAlan Glynn's novelParadime.^[10]

Caron wrote and produced episodes of the first and second seasons of the FX seriesTyrant, and in the spring of 2017 he joined CBS'sBull as a consulting producer before becoming the series's showrunner at the beginning of season two.^[11] In May 2021, it was announced that Caron would be departingBull, as well as ending his deal with CBS Studios.^[12][13][14]

Caron received the 2007 Outstanding Television Writer Award at theAustin Film Festival.^[15] He also won a Writers Guild of America award for his 1985 pilot script forMoonlighting and was nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards forMoonlighting between 1986 and 1987.^[16]

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.^[17]

On December 19, 2018,The Boston Globe published an op-ed by actressEliza Dushku in which she claimed she was fired by Caron from the CBS seriesBull 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.^[18] Caron had been hired as a consulting producer for those three episodes, prior to becomingBull'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 ofwrongful dismissal andsexual harassment.^[19] Dushku signed anondisclosure agreement as part of her settlement, but after news of the settlement leaked and Weatherly and Caron gave statements toThe 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 showBull and retaliated against me for simply asking to do my job without relentless sexual harassment."^[20] Prior to his exit fromBull 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."^[21]

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