What is Tim Minear?
[[File:Tim Minear by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|Tim Minear]] '''Tim Minear''' (born October 29, 1963) is an [[Americans|American]] [[screenwriter]] and [[Film director|director]]. He was born in [[New York (state)|New York]], grew up in [[Whittier, California|Whittier]], [[California]]. He studied [[Movie|film]] at [[California State University, Long Beach]]. Minear was an assistant director on the movie ''[[Platoon (movie)|Platoon]]''. He wrote [[episode]]s for several [[television programme|television series]] including ''[[The X-Files]]'' and ''[[Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman|Lois and Clark]]''. He later wrote, [[executive producer|executive-produced]], and directed episodes of ''[[Strange World (TV series)|Strange World]]'', ''[[Angel (TV series)|Angel]]'', ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'', ''[[Wonderfalls]]'', and ''[[The Inside]]'' (which he also created, with [[Howard Gordon]]). Minear had another series, ''[[Drive (TV series)|Drive]]'', airing on [[Fox Broadcasting Company|FOX]] in April 2007, however it was cancelled by the [[television network|network]] after only four episodes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117963779.html?categoryid=14&cs=1 |last=Schneider |first=Michael |title='Drive' runs out of gas |date=2007-04-25 |publisher=Variety |accessdate=2007-04-26 }}</ref> Drive was set to return with two additional episodes on July 4th, 2007, but these were rescheduled to July 13th and then cancelled.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fox.com/Drive/ |title=Drive on Fox.com |access-date=2007-09-16 |archive-date=2007-09-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070916145434/http://www.fox.com/drive/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Minear often works with [[Joss Whedon]]. His work is usually includes a sharp, black [[humor]]. He is known for his ability to create [[fictional character|characters]] who are [[sympathy|sympathetic]], understandable and completely wrong. The best example of this is his writing in ''[[Angel (TV series)|Angel]]'' Season Two. ==Credits== * ''[