Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show (2014) on Netflix
NR20141h 30mBiographyDocumentary
A documentary about the showrunners of American television, the writer-producers who create a series and oversee every stage of its production. Each day they battle between art and commerce.
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A showrunner is the chief writer and producer of an American television series, and in most cases its creator. Often called the most complex job in entertainment, the role is explored through the accounts of showrunners themselves. They describe what it asks of them: creating a series, writing it, and managing every element of its production, creative, financial and logistical alike. The film also covers the producers, writers and other collaborators aligned around them. It ranges across American drama and comedy series, one of the country's biggest exports, and the daily conflict between art and commerce that comes with the territory.
