Ian Weir was a writter for ReBoot. He helped create the episodes Daemon Rising, Cross Nodes, and What's Love Got To Do With It?. Ian Weir fell into writing for television sideways. His professional career began as a radio playwright for CBC and BBC, then he wrote almost exclusively for the stage. In the late 1980s, Phil Keatling, head of CBC TV in Vancouver, approached the New Play Centre looking for new writers for the regional anthology series Lives From Lotus Land. Weir was one of three names put forward.