{"id":164353,"date":"2025-09-18T01:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T01:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/164353\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T01:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T01:09:07","slug":"john-masius-emmy-winning-touched-by-an-angel-creator-dies-at-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/164353\/","title":{"rendered":"John Masius, Emmy-Winning Touched by an Angel Creator, Dies at 75"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Masius, the creator of \u201cTouched by an Angel\u201d and two-time Emmy-winning writer and producer for \u201cSt. Elsewhere,\u201d died on Saturday at the age of 75.<\/p>\n<p>Masius\u2019 ex-wife Ellen Bry confirmed the \u201cTouched by an Angel\u201d creator\u2019s passing, according to media reports. He died after a declining battle with ALS. On top of his work creating the hit CBS series and writing on \u201cSt. Elsewhere,\u201d he also created \u201cHawthorne\u201d and \u201cProvidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He started his career as a TV writer in the 1980s working on CBS\u2019 \u201cThe White Shadow.\u201d Masius\u2019 two Primetime Emmy Awards for writing on \u201cSt. Elsewhere\u201d came in 1984 and 1986. He received 14 total nominations for his work on the series.<\/p>\n<p>Masius created \u201cTouched by an Angel\u201d in 1994. The series ran for nine seasons but the creator eventually stepped away when CBS deemed his storylines \u201ctoo dark\u201d for the audience. The iconic series starred Roma Downey as a woman who conveyed messages of God to people in need.<\/p>\n<p>After \u201cTouched by an Angel,\u201d Masius returned to medical dramas by creating the NBC series \u201cProvidence\u201d which ran from 1999-2002. Most recently, the industry vet created the Jada Pinkett Smith medical drama \u201cHawthorne\u201d for TNT. The series ran from 2009-2011.<\/p>\n<p>His other credits include the \u201cFerris Bueller\u201d TV series from the \u201990s, Showtime\u2019s \u201cDead Like Me,\u201d and \u201cL.A. Law.\u201d Masius replaced \u201cDead Like Me\u201d original showrunner Bryan Fuller after he left the show early in the first season following creative differences with MGM Television.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside his multiple Emmy wins and nominations, Masius earned a number of Writers Guild Awards, Humanitas Prizes, a Peabody Award and a People\u2019s Choice Award.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his three children Hannah, Max, and Sam and his ex-wife Bry \u2013 who was married to Masius from 1986-1999 and played Shirley Daniels in \u201cSt. Elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"the-wrap-read-more__image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/ben-stiller-jessica-chastain-the-off-weeks-apple-tv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ben-stiller-jessica-chastain.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"ben-stiller-jessica-chastain\"   data-portal-copyright=\"TheWrap\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Masius, the creator of \u201cTouched by an Angel\u201d and two-time Emmy-winning writer and producer for \u201cSt. Elsewhere,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,99429,99430],"class_list":["post-164353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-john-masius","tag-touched-by-an-angel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}