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'Show runner' (alternatively 'showrunner',[1] or 'show-runner')[2] is a term used in the United States television industry referring to the person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television series, in other words, the person who "runs" the show. The term is also occasionally applied to people in the television industries of other countries.2
''Variety'' defines it as the executive producer. The de facto showrunner may, however, be someone completely different. The blog (and book) ''Crafty Screenwriting'' defines ''showrunner'' as "the person responsible for all creative aspects of the show, and responsible only to the network (and production company, if it's not his production company). The boss. Usually a writer."[3]
Creatively, a show runner will decide the direction that the series will take. Traditionally, the showrunner is the creator or co-creator of the series, but this is not always the case. For example, in long running shows, often the creator of the show moves on, and day to day responsibilities of showrunning devolves to other writers or writing teams. ER, The Simpsons, The West Wing and NYPD Blue are all examples of long running shows that went through multiple showrunners. Since there are so many producer credits on TV shows and they can be confusing, the showrunner title is also an industry driven title used to designate the primary writer in charge of the creative direction of a series.
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip features the fictional show runners Matt Albie and Danny Tripp, who take over that position at a sketch comedy show after their predecessor is fired.
In the Canadian Television industry, many terms generally accrued to writers are currently in dispute. "Showrunner" is one of these terms, with many non-writing producers recently trying to claim the term, as the Canadian TV industry has traditionally been a line-producer driven industry. Many producers, citing the difficulty of getting programs financed and off the ground, look to claim the title for themselves. In the American industry it is extremely rare for a showrunner to not come out of the writing class. In Canada, as writers and producers struggle for primacy, the term showrunner has become a football, with many writers refusing to acknowledge non-writing showrunners, and Producers resisting giving "producer" credits to writers. Partly due to this confusion and controversy, in 2007 The Writers Guild of Canada, the union representing screenwriters in Canada, established the Showrunner Award at the annual Canadian Screenwriting Awards, partially to call attention to this fact, and to the role of "writing" as an essential component of the showrunner title. The first "Showrunner Award" was presented to Brad Wright, Executive Producer of Stargate Atlantis, and Stargate SG-1, in April 2007.
★ J.J. Abrams - ''Felicity'', ''Alias''
★ Danny Arnold - ''Barney Miller'', ''Joe Bash''
★ Alan Ball - ''Six Feet Under''
★ Donald Bellisario - ''Magnum, P.I.'', ''Quantum Leap'', ''JAG'', ''NCIS''
★ Greg Berlanti - ''Everwood'', ''Jack & Bobby'' (co-creator)
★ William Bickley - ''Family Matters''
★ Carol Black - ''The Wonder Years'', ''Ellen''
★ Steven Bochco - ''Hill Street Blues'', ''L.A. Law'', ''Hooperman'', ''Doogie Howser, M.D.'', ''NYPD Blue''
★ James Burrows - ''Cheers''
★ Stephen J. Cannell - ''Chase'', ''The Rockford Files'', ''The Greatest American Hero'', ''The A-Team'', ''21 Jump Street'', ''Wiseguy'', ''Booker'', ''The Commish'', ''Renegade''
★ Chris Carter - ''The X-Files'', ''Millennium''
★ Glenn Gordon Caron - ''Moonlighting'', ''Now and Again'', ''Medium''
★ Glen Charles - ''Cheers''
★ Les Charles - ''Cheers''
★ David Chase - ''The Sopranos''
★ Marc Cherry - ''Desperate Housewives''
★ David X. Cohen - ''Futurama''
★ Rick Copp - ''Team Knight Rider''
★ Bill Cosby - ''The Cosby Show''
★ Richard Curtis - ''Blackadder''
★ Carlton Cuse - ''Lost'' (shared with Damon Lindelof)
★ Greg Daniels - ''The Office'' (American version), ''King of the Hill'' (co-creator)
★ Larry David - ''Seinfeld'', ''Curb Your Enthusiasm''
★ David Dortort - ''Bonanza'', ''The High Chaparral''
★ Jeff Franklin - ''Full House'', ''Hangin' with Mr. Cooper''
★ Gary David Goldberg - ''Family Ties'', ''Spin City''
★ David A. Goodman - ''Team Knight Rider''
★ Merv Griffin - ''Wheel of Fortune'', ''Jeopardy!''
★ Susan Harris - ''Soap'', ''Benson'', ''The Golden Girls'', ''Empty Nest'', ''Nurses''
★ Dean Hargrove - ''Matlock'', ''Jake and the Fatman'', ''McBride'', ''Murder 101''
★ Paul Henning - ''The Beverly Hillbillies'', ''Petticoat Junction''
★ Roy Huggins - ''77 Sunset Strip'', ''Maverick'', ''The Fugitive'', ''The Outsider'', ''The Rockford Files''
★ Mitchell Hurwitz - ''Arrested Development''.
★ Al Jean - ''The Simpsons'' ''(Seasons 3-4, 13-)'', ''The Critic''
★ David E. Kelley - ''Picket Fences'', ''Chicago Hope'', ''Ally McBeal'', ''The Practice'', ''Snoops'', ''Boston Public'', ''Girls Club'', ''The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire'', ''Boston Legal''
★ Jenji Kohan - ''Weeds''
★ Glen A. Larson - ''Alias Smith and Jones'', ''Battlestar Galactica'', ''Automan'', ''Knight Rider'', ''Magnum, P.I.''
★ Bill Lawrence - ''Spin City'', ''Scrubs'', ''Nobody's Watching''
★ Michael Leeson - ''The Cosby Show'', ''Twenty Good Years''
★ Damon Lindelof - ''Lost'' (shared with Carlton Cuse)
★ Frank Lupo - ''The A-Team'', ''Werewolf'', ''Hunter''
★ Abby Mann - ''Kojak''
★ Neal Marlens - ''Growing Pains'', ''The Wonder Years'', ''Ellen''
★ Lorne Michaels - ''Saturday Night Live''
★ David Milch - ''Deadwood''
★ David Mirkin - ''The Simpsons'' ''(Seasons 5-6)'', ''Get a Life''
★ Ronald D. Moore - ''Battlestar Galactica''
★ Ryan Murphy - ''Nip/Tuck'', ''Popular''
★ Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein - ''The Simpsons'' ''(Seasons 7-8)'', ''Mission Hill''
★ Mike Reiss - ''The Simpsons'' ''(Seasons 3-4)'', ''The Critic''
★ Don Reo - ''My Wife and Kids'', ''Blossom'', ''The John Larroquette Show''
★ Shonda Rhimes - ''Grey's Anatomy''
★ Gene Roddenberry - '', '', ''
★ Mike Scully - ''The Simpsons'' ''(Seasons 9-12)''
★ Amy Sherman-Palladino - ''Gilmore Girls''
★ David Shore - ''House''
★ Sam Simon - ''The Simpsons'' ''(Seasons 1-2)''
★ Aaron Sorkin - ''Sports Night'', ''Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip'', ''The West Wing''
★ Jay Sommers - ''Green Acres''
★ J. Michael Straczynski - Babylon 5
★ John Sullivan - ''Only Fools and Horses''.
★ Michael Warren - ''Family Matters''
★ Jack Webb - ''Dragnet'', ''Adam-12'', ''Emergency!'', ''Project U.F.O.''
★ Reinhold Weege - ''Night Court''
★ Ed. Weinberger - ''Amen'', ''The Cosby Show''
★ Joss Whedon - ''Buffy The Vampire Slayer'', ''Angel'', ''Firefly''
★ Dick Wolf - ''Law & Order'', '', ''
1. Writers Guild of America, TV Writers Booklet #1-final, Chapter Four Executive Producers
2. )
3. Complications Ensue: The Crafty TV and Screenwriting Blog
''Variety'' defines it as the executive producer. The de facto showrunner may, however, be someone completely different. The blog (and book) ''Crafty Screenwriting'' defines ''showrunner'' as "the person responsible for all creative aspects of the show, and responsible only to the network (and production company, if it's not his production company). The boss. Usually a writer."[3]
Creatively, a show runner will decide the direction that the series will take. Traditionally, the showrunner is the creator or co-creator of the series, but this is not always the case. For example, in long running shows, often the creator of the show moves on, and day to day responsibilities of showrunning devolves to other writers or writing teams. ER, The Simpsons, The West Wing and NYPD Blue are all examples of long running shows that went through multiple showrunners. Since there are so many producer credits on TV shows and they can be confusing, the showrunner title is also an industry driven title used to designate the primary writer in charge of the creative direction of a series.
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip features the fictional show runners Matt Albie and Danny Tripp, who take over that position at a sketch comedy show after their predecessor is fired.
In the Canadian Television industry, many terms generally accrued to writers are currently in dispute. "Showrunner" is one of these terms, with many non-writing producers recently trying to claim the term, as the Canadian TV industry has traditionally been a line-producer driven industry. Many producers, citing the difficulty of getting programs financed and off the ground, look to claim the title for themselves. In the American industry it is extremely rare for a showrunner to not come out of the writing class. In Canada, as writers and producers struggle for primacy, the term showrunner has become a football, with many writers refusing to acknowledge non-writing showrunners, and Producers resisting giving "producer" credits to writers. Partly due to this confusion and controversy, in 2007 The Writers Guild of Canada, the union representing screenwriters in Canada, established the Showrunner Award at the annual Canadian Screenwriting Awards, partially to call attention to this fact, and to the role of "writing" as an essential component of the showrunner title. The first "Showrunner Award" was presented to Brad Wright, Executive Producer of Stargate Atlantis, and Stargate SG-1, in April 2007.
| Contents |
| Examples of show runners and the shows they created |
| References |
Examples of show runners and the shows they created
★ J.J. Abrams - ''Felicity'', ''Alias''
★ Danny Arnold - ''Barney Miller'', ''Joe Bash''
★ Alan Ball - ''Six Feet Under''
★ Donald Bellisario - ''Magnum, P.I.'', ''Quantum Leap'', ''JAG'', ''NCIS''
★ Greg Berlanti - ''Everwood'', ''Jack & Bobby'' (co-creator)
★ William Bickley - ''Family Matters''
★ Carol Black - ''The Wonder Years'', ''Ellen''
★ Steven Bochco - ''Hill Street Blues'', ''L.A. Law'', ''Hooperman'', ''Doogie Howser, M.D.'', ''NYPD Blue''
★ James Burrows - ''Cheers''
★ Stephen J. Cannell - ''Chase'', ''The Rockford Files'', ''The Greatest American Hero'', ''The A-Team'', ''21 Jump Street'', ''Wiseguy'', ''Booker'', ''The Commish'', ''Renegade''
★ Chris Carter - ''The X-Files'', ''Millennium''
★ Glenn Gordon Caron - ''Moonlighting'', ''Now and Again'', ''Medium''
★ Glen Charles - ''Cheers''
★ Les Charles - ''Cheers''
★ David Chase - ''The Sopranos''
★ Marc Cherry - ''Desperate Housewives''
★ David X. Cohen - ''Futurama''
★ Rick Copp - ''Team Knight Rider''
★ Bill Cosby - ''The Cosby Show''
★ Richard Curtis - ''Blackadder''
★ Carlton Cuse - ''Lost'' (shared with Damon Lindelof)
★ Greg Daniels - ''The Office'' (American version), ''King of the Hill'' (co-creator)
★ Larry David - ''Seinfeld'', ''Curb Your Enthusiasm''
★ David Dortort - ''Bonanza'', ''The High Chaparral''
★ Jeff Franklin - ''Full House'', ''Hangin' with Mr. Cooper''
★ Gary David Goldberg - ''Family Ties'', ''Spin City''
★ David A. Goodman - ''Team Knight Rider''
★ Merv Griffin - ''Wheel of Fortune'', ''Jeopardy!''
★ Susan Harris - ''Soap'', ''Benson'', ''The Golden Girls'', ''Empty Nest'', ''Nurses''
★ Dean Hargrove - ''Matlock'', ''Jake and the Fatman'', ''McBride'', ''Murder 101''
★ Paul Henning - ''The Beverly Hillbillies'', ''Petticoat Junction''
★ Roy Huggins - ''77 Sunset Strip'', ''Maverick'', ''The Fugitive'', ''The Outsider'', ''The Rockford Files''
★ Mitchell Hurwitz - ''Arrested Development''.
★ Al Jean - ''The Simpsons'' ''(Seasons 3-4, 13-)'', ''The Critic''
★ David E. Kelley - ''Picket Fences'', ''Chicago Hope'', ''Ally McBeal'', ''The Practice'', ''Snoops'', ''Boston Public'', ''Girls Club'', ''The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire'', ''Boston Legal''
★ Jenji Kohan - ''Weeds''
★ Glen A. Larson - ''Alias Smith and Jones'', ''Battlestar Galactica'', ''Automan'', ''Knight Rider'', ''Magnum, P.I.''
★ Bill Lawrence - ''Spin City'', ''Scrubs'', ''Nobody's Watching''
★ Michael Leeson - ''The Cosby Show'', ''Twenty Good Years''
★ Damon Lindelof - ''Lost'' (shared with Carlton Cuse)
★ Frank Lupo - ''The A-Team'', ''Werewolf'', ''Hunter''
★ Abby Mann - ''Kojak''
★ Neal Marlens - ''Growing Pains'', ''The Wonder Years'', ''Ellen''
★ Lorne Michaels - ''Saturday Night Live''
★ David Milch - ''Deadwood''
★ David Mirkin - ''The Simpsons'' ''(Seasons 5-6)'', ''Get a Life''
★ Ronald D. Moore - ''Battlestar Galactica''
★ Ryan Murphy - ''Nip/Tuck'', ''Popular''
★ Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein - ''The Simpsons'' ''(Seasons 7-8)'', ''Mission Hill''
★ Mike Reiss - ''The Simpsons'' ''(Seasons 3-4)'', ''The Critic''
★ Don Reo - ''My Wife and Kids'', ''Blossom'', ''The John Larroquette Show''
★ Shonda Rhimes - ''Grey's Anatomy''
★ Gene Roddenberry - '', '', ''
★ Mike Scully - ''The Simpsons'' ''(Seasons 9-12)''
★ Amy Sherman-Palladino - ''Gilmore Girls''
★ David Shore - ''House''
★ Sam Simon - ''The Simpsons'' ''(Seasons 1-2)''
★ Aaron Sorkin - ''Sports Night'', ''Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip'', ''The West Wing''
★ Jay Sommers - ''Green Acres''
★ J. Michael Straczynski - Babylon 5
★ John Sullivan - ''Only Fools and Horses''.
★ Michael Warren - ''Family Matters''
★ Jack Webb - ''Dragnet'', ''Adam-12'', ''Emergency!'', ''Project U.F.O.''
★ Reinhold Weege - ''Night Court''
★ Ed. Weinberger - ''Amen'', ''The Cosby Show''
★ Joss Whedon - ''Buffy The Vampire Slayer'', ''Angel'', ''Firefly''
★ Dick Wolf - ''Law & Order'', '', ''
References
1. Writers Guild of America, TV Writers Booklet #1-final, Chapter Four Executive Producers
2. )
3. Complications Ensue: The Crafty TV and Screenwriting Blog
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