Jaime Paglia

Jaime Paglia
Jaime Paglia at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California, August 2024
Occupations
  • Screenwriter
  • Showrunner
  • Producer
  • Director
Years active1996–present

Jaime Paglia is an American screenwriter, showrunner, producer and director. He is best known for co-creating and executive producing Eureka (2006–2012).

Life and career

He attended the University of California, Santa Cruz majoring in economics for three weeks, before finding his passion with the theatre arts/film program. He minored in English literature.

His first show business endeavour was as an assistant in feature film publicity at MGM Studios, which led to him meeting many executives. For his first spec script sale, he partnered with college friend, David Draffin, for the feature film action-comedy, "Bombshell," with executive producers Team Todd and New Line Cinema.

He went on to co-write the Christmas action-comedy, "Kringle," with Andrew Cosby, and executive producers Akiva Goldsman and Mark Canton. Later, Paglia and Cosby went on to co-create Eureka for the Syfy channel.

Eureka

In 2003, Paglia and Cosby sold their dramedy Eureka to Syfy as a pitch. In July 2006, the series premiered to critical and viewer success. Over the course of the show's seven-year run and 77 episodes, Paglia was the co-showrunner and wrote 20 episodes. He made his directing debut with the fifth-season episode, "Jack of All Trades."

The Flash

In summer 2014, Paglia was hired as co-executive producer to run the writers' room on the first season of the DC Comics produced CW superhero series The Flash. He co-wrote the series' 6th episode, "The Flash Is Born," which introduced the supervillain Girder.

Scream TV Series

In 2015, Paglia was hired as executive producer and co-showrunner for season one of the MTV slasher series Scream. Paglia is credited for writing the 6th episode, "Betrayed," and the season one finale, "Revelations."

Filmography

Television

The numbers in credits refer to the number of episodes.

Title Year Credited as Network Notes
Creator Director Writer Executive
producer
Eureka 2006–12 Yes Yes (1) Yes (21) Yes Sci Fi
The Flash 2014 No No Yes (1) co-executive (6) The CW
Scream 2015 No No Yes (2) co-executive (10) MTV
The Teenage Psychic 2019 No No No No PTS consulting producer; season 2

References

  1. 1 2 "FEATURED ENTERTAINER: JAIME PAGLIA". The Science & Entertainment Exchange. January 30, 2012. Retrieved October 13, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Jaime Paglia". TV.com. Archived from the original on October 18, 2014. Retrieved October 13, 2014.
  3. ↑ Paglia, Jaime (August 27, 2014). "First day shooting #TheFlash ep. six starts in an hour. Co-written w/ @chris_rafferty, directed by Millicent Shelton". Twitter. Retrieved October 13, 2014.

Jaime Paglia at IMDb