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sutterink.blogspot.com - 7 days ago
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People have asked me many times, what is a “showrunner”? What does that mean? What do you do exactly? When I’m in the middle of a season, the last thing I wanna do is talk about the job description, but I thought I’d take a minute while I had some down time ...
| Kurt Sutter talks about his routine as a showrunner for Sons Of Anarchy http://sutterink.blogspot.com/2009/11/show-must-be-run.html 2 days ago |
| RT @pourmecoffee: Absolutely fascinating (long) account of what running a TV show is really like from Kurt Sutter: http://bit.ly/1s5nDt 2 days ago |
| RT@kirrilian:In anticipation of#sonsofanarchy tonite here is an insight 2 how the sho created: http://bit.ly/1OMjlZ Mad props2@sutterink &Co 4 days ago |
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Fifteen Minutes To Live — Kurt Sutter (of Sons of Anarchy) explains what a showrunner does.
Running With The Sons
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I'M NOT THE first to notice this, but in case you haven't seen it elsewhere, Kurt Sutter from Sons of Anarchy has one of the best descriptions of the job of Showrunning in toto, that I've ever read. As you read, please note the places where there's room for variation. Every writing room is run differently. You can have a staff where the showrunner rewrites all, or one where the communication is good enough that writers can do meaningful second drafts. There are shows where the senior writers aren't rewritten as much because their ...
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