{"id":2595,"date":"2002-05-27T18:11:32","date_gmt":"2002-05-27T16:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=2595"},"modified":"2008-08-21T18:13:11","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T16:13:11","slug":"roswell-writer-now-showrunner-on-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2002\/05\/roswell-writer-now-showrunner-on-angel\/","title":{"rendered":"Roswell writer now showrunner on Angel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to johnnysunshine for this :)<\/p>\n<p>David Simkins, writer of third season episodes &#8220;Significant Others,&#8221; &#8220;Interruptus,&#8221; and &#8220;Crash,&#8221; is taking over for David Greenwalt as the showrunner for WB&#8217;s Angel during its fourth season. Here&#8217;s the post from Ain&#8217;t It Cool News<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>FREAKYLINKS Showrunner To Oversee ANGEL!!<\/p>\n<p>I am \u2013 Hercules!!<\/p>\n<p>David Simkins, whose terrifying resume includes stints as a writer-producer on \u201cCharmed\u201d and as the showrunner of \u201cFreakylinks,\u201d is the new showrunner for \u201cAngel,\u201d the The Hollywood Reporter said Friday.<br \/>\nSimkins, who also served as a writer on the terrible first season of \u201cDark Angel\u201d and the shaky final season of \u201cRoswell,\u201d will replace \u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer\u201d vet David Greenwalt, who co-created \u201cAngel\u201d and served as showrunner during the show\u2019s first three seasons.<br \/>\nGreenwalt is leaving the top job at \u201cAngel\u201d to become the highly-paid showrunner on the upcoming midseason ABC drama \u201cMiracles,\u201d which stars Skeet Ulrich as an agent of the Vatican dispatched to investigate paranormal activity. \u201cMiracles\u201d was created by screenwriter Richard Hatem (\u201cThe Mothman Prophesies\u201d). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to johnnysunshine for this :) David Simkins, writer of third season episodes &#8220;Significant Others,&#8221; &#8220;Interruptus,&#8221; and &#8220;Crash,&#8221; is taking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[117,1126],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roswell","tag-angel","tag-david-simkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2595"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}