XPost: alt.tv.star-trek.next-gen, rec.arts.tv, rec.arts.sf.tv   
   From: daniel47@eternal-september.org   
      
   anim8rfsk wrote on 3/03/2019 7:36 AM:   
   > Sat, 02 Mar 2019 13:05:42 -0700 Your Name   
   > wrote:   
   >> On 2019-03-02 09:05:15 +0000, Daniel60 said:   
   >>> anim8rfsk wrote on 2/03/2019 8:37 AM:   
   >>>> Fri, 01 Mar 2019 14:13:05 -0700 Your Name   
   >>>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>    
   >>>   
   >>>> There we are. Nine executive producers, one lousy show.   
   >>>   
   >>> This has peaked my interest in the naming of positions used in   
   >>> the T.V./Film industry!! As I understand things ....   
   >>>   
   >>> The *Actors* are the people that work in front of the cameras.   
   >>> The *Writer* writes the words/dictates the actions that the   
   >>> actors say/do in front of the cameras. The *Director* directs how   
   >>> the actors work in front of the cameras. The *Producer* organises   
   >>> the finances required to pay everyone for doing whatever they do.   
   >>> If there are several doing this, they are co-producers!   
   >>>   
   >>> Am I wrong??   
   >>>   
   >>> So what do *Executive Producers* do?? Are they the representative   
   >>> of the Firm that is bank-rolling the production??   
   >>>   
   >>> What, then, might "Co-Executive Producers" do?? Several   
   >>> representatives of the bank-rolling firm??   
   >>>   
   >>> Anybody??   
   >>   
   >> "Executive Producers", like "executives" in business, do nothing   
   >> useful, have no real power over what is / isn't done, come up with   
   >> piles of ridiculousideas that are best ignored, and are vastly   
   >> over-paid. It's more of a honorary postition with the names being   
   >> listed simply to appease their egos or for legal reason (such as   
   >> having a Roddenberry name listed on a Star Trek series).   
      
   When I have noticed one of the Stars of a series getting a 'producer'   
   credit, I'd just figured it was a way of giving the Star a pay raise   
   with-out actually giving them an actual pay-rise!!   
      
   > One of those executive producers is the show runner, who actually   
   > does stuff.   
   >   
   "the show runner" ... the term that really inspired  my query, as it is   
   widely used to describe the boss of "Doctor Who" series production.   
      
   What the heck is everybody else doing if "the show runner" is, really,   
   the BOSS??   
      
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