dangerous criminals. Ransom was VOX Germany's highest rated drama premiere for over 15 months and France's TF1 premiere reached over 4 million viewers for a market share of 25%. The show ran for three seasons. Leonardo Spotnitz co-created, executive-produced and co-wrote Leonardo, which was one of the first productions to complete filming during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. The series was released in early 2021 in RAI for Italy, Amazon Prime for the United Kingdom and Ireland, as well as Sony LIV in India, and PikTV in Canada. The eight-part limited series shows the terrible personal sacrifice that led Leonardo to create masterpieces that changed the way we see the world forever. Starring Aidan Turner and Freddie Highmore, the series is the first produced by The Alliance (RAI, France Télévisions, ZDF and RTVE). Writing process Spotnitz adopted the writers' room process from his experience in the US, which he brought to the UK when he founded Big Light Productions. He cards the story scene by scene on a corkboard, with one board for each episode. Spotnitz favours carding in order to better analyse the story and to enable better collaboration. He always asks: why do I care about this story? Why do I care about this character? And aims to draw in the audience early on. Personal life Spotnitz lives with his family in London. Spotnitz said in an interview about his show The Man in the High Castle: "Frank is the closest to me in the TV series, because my father's Jewish, my mother's not. I don't identify as Jewish in a religious way. I'm not a religious person, and yet if you were living in a Nazi state, that would be no defense. Jews don't get to decide if they're Jews. That's really terrifying to me." Filmography The X-Files credits Books TV Outside the Box: Trailblazing in the Digital Television Revolution, Neil Landau (2015) Dalla parte di John Fante, by Giovanna Di Lello and Toni Ricciardi (Rome: Carocci 2020) References External links 1960 births Living people 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers 20th-century American screenwriters 21st-century American screenwriters AFI Conservatory alumni American male television writers American people of Jewish descent American television producers American television writers Screenwriting instructors Showrunners University of California, Los Angeles alumni