Terry Matalas

In 2022, Matalas was promoted to co-showrunner of Star Trek: Picard for the second and third seasons.

In 2019, Matalas was brought on to the reboot of MacGyver for CBS, as a showrunner on the fourth season.

In 2018, Matalas sold an original drama series to CBS entitled Apex. The same year, he was hired as a consultant producer on SyFy's Nightflyers, an adaptation of George R.R. Martin's novella of the same name.

Matalas says he always wanted to create a serialized time travel show. In 2013, he and Fickett co-wrote a spec pilot script called Splinter. Their script received positive responses and ended up at the offices of Atlas Entertainment, the production company that produced the 1995 film 12 Monkeys. The company told Matalas and Fickett that they had been planning to reboot the film as a show, and they wanted the pair to rewrite Splinter as a pilot for12 Monkeys. Rather than completely rewriting their script, Matalas suggested simply changing the characters' names to those from12 Monkeys. Atlas agreed, and SyFy ordered the series. The show ran for four seasons.

In 2011, Matalas and Fickett wrote the graphic novel Witch for Kickstart Comics. In 2012, Matalas wrote the Star Trek: The Next Generation comic miniseries Hive for IDW Publishing.

Terry Matalas (born December 11, 1975) is an American television writer, director, and executive producer, best known for co-creating and showrunning the 12 Monkeys series, which ran for four seasons on SyFy. He was a showrunner on MacGyver for CBS until it was cancelled in 2021, and is currently showrunner for the second and third seasons of Star Trek: Picard on Paramount+.