Carmen Finestra (born 1947) is an American producer and TV writer who currently is partnered with Matt Williams and David McFadzean in Wind Dancer Productions, a firm which Finestra also co-owns and co-founded with actor Tim Allen. For Wind Dancer, Finestra has produced or executive produced Where the Heart Is, Firelight, Soul Man, Thunder Alley and his company's best known series, Home Improvement, which starred Allen as a feisty home-improvement host, and in turn based on Allen's stand-up comedy routines. Most recently the firm has released Good Sam on Netflix and children's TV series Ready Jet Go![1]
Finestra was born to Italian immigrants in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and initially attended a seminary college for two years to become a Catholic priest before transferring to Penn State University, where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He earned his BA in 1971.
After a stint as an Off-Broadway actor, Finestra turned to writing for the likes of Johnny Cash (for one of Cash's summer series) and Steve Martin. Finestra's big break came when he began writing for The Cosby Show in 1984, where he would remain until 1990, leaving the show as supervising producer. Finestra received two Emmy nominations as one of the producers of The Cosby Show and another Emmy nomination for co-writing an episode of the hit series. He also did three guest star appearances on The Cosby Show (episodes 4.12, 6.2 and 6.14).
In 1991, Finestra became a writer and co-executive producer for Home Improvement, capacities he filled until the series' end in 1999. His work on the sitcom would land three Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations for him.
Finestra was honored as a Distinguished Alumnus of Penn State in 1998. Penn State named an off campus video editing lab, The Carmen Finestra Digital Editing Lab, in his honor at Innovation Park, an off site technology hub on the University Park campus.
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The problem with that was that while I was digging the hole under you... I found out all about you. And the more I found out... The more you dazzled me. I mean, shook my world, changed my life, dazzled me. And guys like that ex-husband of yours, he made you feel that... The price you pay just for being you... Is that you don't get to have love. Isn't that what you were trying to say the other night ? That you weren't complete ? That you weren't really a winner like that ? Everything about you-- How smart you are, how good you are-- Everything just makes me want you even more. Oh, wow. Boy. So it looks like I'm here at 1:00 in the morning... Being all heroic trying to rescue you, But the truth is... I'm the one that needs to be rescued here. I sure wish I could read your mind. Well, I was thinking that, um, If everything you're saying is true, If I really have my job back... Then I think you're fired.
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- ^ "In Release". Wind Dancer Films. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
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