Showtime series revealed?

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From: "Alyson L. Abramowitz" <aly at best.com>
Date: 6 Oct 2000 00:02:01 -0700
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P=E5l Are Nordal wrote:
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> "Alyson L. Abramowitz" wrote:
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> > Can you provide a little help in understanding this? What role are ea=
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> > of you providing to the production? What does it mean that you are th=
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> > "designated showrunner"?
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> If it becomes a series, Joe will be the one in charge of it, having
> final approval on everything (even more so than on B5 it seems). His
> official title will be "executive producer".
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> The article listed only Joe Dante, giving the impression that jms was
> just writing the pilot.

I understood the problem with the article.  However, it didn't explain
what the involvement of each Joe is in the production.  One assumes Joe
Dante might have some role beyond figurehead, for example. That was my
question.  Perhaps JMS might clarify? Thanks.

Best,
Alyson


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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 6 Oct 2000 16:33:40 -0700
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>I understood the problem with the article.  However, it didn't explain
>what the involvement of each Joe is in the production.  One assumes Joe
>Dante might have some role beyond figurehead, for example. That was my
>question.  Perhaps JMS might clarify?

The problem is not in the original article in Variety, only in the paraphrase
on one site.  The Cinescape site, I believe, got the information right. 
(Articles like those in Variety are copyrighted, so they can't repost the whole
text; instead they paraphrase, and sometimes inaccuracies slip in.)

To clarify: every show has multiple executive producers these days.  Shows like
the X-Files have something like 3 or 4.  But at the end of the day, only one of
these is the actual show-runner.  

 jms

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