Jim Coane

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Jim Coane is an American television executive producer, writer, director and development executive. He is an Emmy Award winner and the co-creator and executive producer of the PBS animated series Dragon Tales. He is credited as executive producer and director on many network, syndication and cable series, including Walking the Bible, Totally Hidden Video, America's Most Wanted and Futurequest.^[1]

Coane has executive produced hundreds of series' episodes, specials and pilots for all the major American networks, syndication and many domestic cable and foreign broadcasters. He received an Emmy award for the PBS documentary series Futurequest and his preschool children's series Dragon Tales was nominated three times. He worked on staff in overall producer deals at Sony Pictures Television, Fox Television Studios and was president of the production division of Unapix Productions. He is an adjunct professor at UCLA and The New York Film Academy in Los Angeles.