- Born
- Birth nameHartwick David Hanson
- Hart Hanson is creator and show-runner of the Fox television series Bones and The Finder. Prior to creating Bones and The Finder, Hart was Executive Producer of the Emmy nominated CBS tv series Judging Amy followed by Joan of Arcadia which won the HUMANITAS, Peoples's Choice Award, and the AFI Program of the Year Award. Hart was Co-Excecutive Producer of the ABC series Cupid and Snoops.
Hart has worked under a longtime overall deal with 20th Century Fox. Before moving to the United States a decade ago, Hart wrote and produced a number of indigenous Canadian series including Beachcombers, North of 60, The Odyssey, Ready or Not, The Road to Avonlea, Cold Squad, Stargate, The Outer Limits, garnering several Gemini nominations and four wins along the way. Hart won the Writers Guild of Canada Award for best writing in a television series for Traders and then executive produced the multi-award winning seasons Two through Four. Pilots written for 20th Century Fox include: Palm City, Expert Witness, Zuma, Buzz, and Pleading Guilty.
Hart graduated from University College, University of Toronto, with degrees in Political Theory and English and received his Master degrees in Political Theory and English and received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia. He taught as an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia. He lives with his wife Brigitte and two sons in Malibu.
- IMDb mini biography by: Humanitas Official Website
- Raised in Canada. Holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia.
- [on why there will only be a limited number of episodes on 'Bones' The dead bodies.) There are a lot of elements in our show that have to be perfect, and dead bodies are one. A big one. The dead bodies have to be made. That's a real skill.
- If our cases are highly compressed, we compensate in our relationship arcs. We may catch a murderer in forty-four minutes, but it took us six years to have Booth and Brennan consummate their love.
- [on Detective Lt. Everett Backstrom in the 'Backstrom' series] He's awful. He's just awful. In the books, Backstrom has no redeeming values. He's not even a very good detective. He just takes credit for what other people do, like a showrunner. The one change we made for network TV was to make him very good at his job and take all those bad qualities that he has in the book and turn them into a tool for solving crimes. We hope viewers will watch long enough to realize that what he's saying does not come for a 'bad human being' place. It comes from a bad place in a human being.
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