9-1-1” with Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk as a Fox midseason drama in January 2018, Tim Minear was a prolific producer with many impressive TV credits under his belt.

Minear, who has the longest-running overall deal at “9-1-1” studio 20th Television, is best known for his work on “Angel,” “Firefly,” “Dollhouse,” “American Horror Story,” “Terriers,” “Feud,” “Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman” and “Wonderfalls.” But of those shows, the ones he personally created are best known for being very short-lived.

Case in point: ever the self-aware-dark-humorist, Minear’s now-deactivated Twitter handle used to be @CancelledAgain.“For the longest time, it was always like, what’s the hit network show?” Minear, who is “9-1-1” and spinoff “9-1-1: Lone Star” co-showrunner, told Variety. “That’s what the studio wants me to do, they want me to come up with a hit network show, and all I wanted to do was weird little cable things.

And now I’ve got two hit network shows. But I don’t think anything I’m doing now is any different from what I did 20 years ago.” “9-1-1” follows LAPD field sergeant Athena Grant (Angela Bassett), Chief Bobby Nash (Peter Krause) and the LAFD’s Station 118 team, plus 9-1-1 call center operator Maddie Kendall (Jennifer Love Hewitt), and the off-the-rails emergencies they face in their professional and personal lives. “9-1-1: Lone Star,” which premiered in January 2020, is centered on Captain Owen Strand (Rob Lowe) and Captain Tommy Vega (Gina Torres) and their crew at Station 126 in Austin, Texas.“We don’t approach these things any different than we approached ‘Angel’ or ‘Firefly’ or ‘Wonderfalls’ or any of that stuff,” Minear said. “It’s an hour of a show, it’s about found family and emotion.

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