Executive producer

Executive producer is a role in the entertainment industry that is sometimes difficult to clearly define. Executive producers vary in involvement, responsibility and power. Some executive producers have hands-on control over every aspect of production, some supervise the producers of a project, while others are involved in name only.

Television

In the production of a television show there may be many executive producers listed. Sometimes it may be a situation not dissimilar to the one listed immediately above for motion pictures: someone with previous involvement with a particular work, a financier of a project, or someone in control of the business aspect of production. Other times it is a celebrity or notable creator who has lent their name to a project but in reality has no input into the production.

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In television, however, an executive producer might have more power than any other credited crew member - this is the case with the Show runner. Generally a show runner (still credited as an executive producer) is the creator of a series or an influential staff writer on the show whose role is to guide the overall creative progress of the show's story over the course of a season - they can be seen as the creative director of the show, and all creative decisions from casting to script approval goes through them. Usually, while there may be many producers and executive producers with varying responsibilities on a television series, there are just one or two in the position of show runner.

Related Topics:
Show runner - Creator - Writer - Producers

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