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The Business of Television, 2nd Edition
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The Business of Television, 2nd Edition

by Ken Basin
September 2024
Intermediate to advanced
644 pages
25h 58m
English
Routledge
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6Writing and Non-Writing Producing Deals

DOI: 10.4324/9781003178095-7

A Creator/Writer-Producer Agreements

Because television is a writer-driven medium, the writer-producer agreement is often the most significant deal in the development process. At the development/pilot stage, there is seldom any such thing as a writing deal by itself—nearly every agreement for the writing or acquisition of a pilot script will include negotiated terms for the writer’s ongoing participation in the production of the series as a producer (usually an Executive Producer,1 the highest-level credit in television).2 An experienced creator3 will be expected to serve as the showrunner of the series, the lead creative manager of the production process.4 This job requires ...

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