What Is A "showrunner"?

[bednobs]

is it synonymous with director/producer? whaen did it start being used?

[Baldric]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showrunner

[cassa333]

The person who is in charge of writing a show.

I.e. STephen Moffat is the outgoing show runner for Dr Who.

[jno]

fairly recently. It's ... the person who's running the show. Might be producer, writer, whatever. It tends to mean the person in charge of the creative vision rather than the money.

Perhaps it's new because the concept is new, a reflection I think of the growing power of writers in particular.

[Hopkirk]

Whenever I see the credits at the end of a film, I see the job of dolly grip scroll past. I want that job.

[Old_Geezer]

Dolly's getting on a bit, now.

[andy-hughes]

Hopkirk - a grip is a carpenter, and the dolly grip is the guy who constructs the tracks for the camera trolley - the dolly - to roll on for tracking shots. So if you can lay track, this is the job for you!

[Hopkirk]

I don't want it any more

[andy-hughes]

Thought not!

[jno]

do they still list the Best Boy? That could be Hopkirk.