Jan Nash is "Rizzoli & Isles" New Showrunner

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Jan Nash Set as "Rizzoli & Isles" Showrunner
by NELLIE ANDREEVA
November 18, 2013


Jan Nash is joining TNT‘s flagship drama series "Rizzoli & Isles" as executive producer/showrunner. She will succeed creator/executive producer Janet Tamaro, who stepped down as showrunner in September, right after the series wrapped production on Season 4.

One of the first orders of business for Nash and her writing team will be dealing with the death of "Rizzoli & Isles" co-star Lee Thompson Young, who committed suicide in August during the filming of the second-to-last episode of Season 4.

His death was not addressed in the final episodes of Season 4 and will be dealt with at the opening of Season 5.





The series reunites Nash with Warner Bros TV and its cable division Warner Horizon. She previously worked with the studio on another TNT drama series, "Memphis Beat", as well as CBS procedural "Without A Trace".

Nash, repped by WME, started her career on the ABC comedy "Ellen".





"Rizzoli & Isles" is TNT’s No. 1 show of all time and the No. 2 scripted series in the history of ad-supported cable television, behind only AMC’s "The Walking Dead".

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