Tracy R. Tormé (born April 12, 1959) is an American screenwriter and television producer. He has worked for Saturday Night Live, Odyssey 5, Sliders, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Fire in the Sky and Carnivàle. His father was noted singer Mel Tormé, and he is a graduate of Beverly Hills High School.
Tracy Tormé is the co-creator of the show Sliders, but had conflicts with the Fox Network during the production of the show.
Tormé wanted the end of...
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Tracy R. Tormé (born April 12, 1959) is an American screenwriter and television producer. He has worked for Saturday Night Live, Odyssey 5, Sliders, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Fire in the Sky and Carnivàle. His father was noted singer Mel Tormé, and he is a graduate of Beverly Hills High School.
Tracy Tormé is the co-creator of the show Sliders, but had conflicts with the Fox Network during the production of the show.
Tormé wanted the end of an episode to be linked to the beginning of the next episode, but he claimed that Fox did not allow him to do this because they wanted to air the episodes in their preferred order, and that linking episodes would force them to air them in Tormé's order. He also felt that this damaged the show's continuity.
He claimed that Fox wanted an action-oriented show based on popular movies. He complained that with such TV shows, the viewer forgets what has been seen five minutes later. He also claimed that Fox did not want anything intellectual or...
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