Manuel Hector Manny Coto was an American writer director and producer of films and television programs Coto graduated from the American Film Institute and has experience in the scifi and fantasy genres In 1990 Brian Helgeland and Coto sold a script The Ticking Man for 1 million but the film was never made He wrote and directed an episode of Tales from the Crypt and also wrote an episode for and produced The Outer Limits when it was revived on Showtime in 1995 He was given the chance to create and write a series for Showtime after The Outer Limits was cancelled The resulting series was Odyssey 5 and starred Peter Weller Coto was the executive producer and showrunner of Star Trek Enterprise in its final season and executive producer of four seasons of 24 He was an executive producer and writer for the fifth season of the Showtime TV series Dexter Coto also was the Executive Producer of American Horror Story and American Horror Stories having written numerous episodes of both series