text: Jason Katims (born November 30, 1960) is an American television writer, producer, and playwright. He is best known as the creator of several television series, including Relativity (1996), Roswell (1999–2002), Friday Night Lights (2006–2011), Parenthood (2010–2015), About a Boy (2014–2015) and Rise (2018).
  Early life and family
  Jason Katims was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, and raised first in Crown Heights and later in Midwood. His father Robert Katims was an actor and a salesman; his mother Ruth Sandra Ohsie, an English and philosophy major, "did some teachings". His parents were  "very politically active, very left-leaning." He has an older brother and sister.
  Before studying theater at Queens College in Queens, New York City, he graduated from Edward R. Murrow High School.
  He married his high school sweetheart; they have two children, Phoebe and Sawyer Katims.
  Career
  Katims was a playwright in New York until director and producer Ed Zwick asked him if he wanted to write for television and films.
  In 1994, he wrote three episodes for the ABC teen drama My So-Called Life. He created Relativity in 1996 but the TV series was cancelled after 17 episodes. He subsequently created Roswell, which gained cult following.