Once a correspondent for CNN and a news anchor for local television stations, writer-producer Bryce Zabel made the jump from journalism to Hollywood for the most basic of reasons: he needed a job. That simple need transformed his life and steered him down a path toward series television, feature films and the chairmanship of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Without the switch, Zabel may well have bounced from anchor chair to anchor chair in places like Buffalo or Indianapolis. Instead, he decided to write spec scripts for pilot television—a decision that spawned a long-running
