Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show
2014 · 88 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 1,286 VOTES · DIR. Des Doyle
Overview
“Showrunners” is the first ever feature length documentary film to explore the fascinating world of US television showrunners and the creative forces aligned around them. These are the people responsible for creating, writing and overseeing every element of production on one of the United State’s biggest exports – television drama and comedy series. Often described as the most complex job in the entertainment business, a showrunner is the chief writer / producer on a TV series and, in most instances, the show’s creator. Battling daily between art and commerce, showrunners manage every aspect of a TV show’s development and production: creative, financial and logistical.
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00:05:08 It's very, very, you know, right brain, left brain, boom.
00:09:01 The idea of really having those characters
00:12:11 Then we try and smoosh those together into an outline.
00:15:41 I wanna send you out the script on the 23rd.
00:18:48 We're coming to it saying, we're gonna get fucking bored
00:22:27 And he was one of Gene Roddenberry's assistants.
00:26:05 Chris was talking about Rockford files. Yeah.
00:29:37 There's no show that goes on our air where we don't have
00:32:59 because I can have ideas in prep
00:36:26 And then, hundreds of phone calls
00:39:50 "the grass is greener on that side."
00:43:17 Whereas when you're managing, you have so many different
00:46:48 We met with a couple networks, and then TNT...
00:50:02 everybody loved everybody, and nobody wanted to go home.
00:53:29 Please tell me you got a warning.
00:56:39 ♪♪
00:59:59 Some people really don't like that.
01:03:41 And to be able to write and have people recognize you
01:07:02 from the way TV has been done before.
01:10:32 I can't say that anybody screwed us.
01:14:20 "Hey, road's over. We tried.
01:18:10 right or wrong, the amount of control that you have
01:21:27 I was writing my pilot, and at the same time