INTRODUCTION What Is a Showrunner?
In movies, the director is king. In the television series business, the show-runner calls the shots. A showrunner is almost always the head writer and executive producer (EP) of a TV series. Very oft en, but not always, the show-runner is also the creator of the series. In many cases, a TV network will buy a series “pitch” or a completed pilot script that’s already been written speculatively (on “spec”) by a screenwriter who has little or no producing experience. In such cases, the studio and network will work together to assign an experienced showrunner to supervise the writing (and, in some cases, the directing) on the series, and this executive producer will also be the final word on all production ...
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