Showrunners & Network Heads
She had a production company in the 1970s and used her initials as the company name.
Who is Mary Tyler Moore?
Action/Adventure, Nuclear Family Sitcoms, and Dramas were the most successful television genres in this decade.
What is the 1980s?
Four act television drama series are typically in production for this number of days.
What is 8 days?
Demonstrating passion, simplicity, and knowledge of an audience is necessary when doing one of these.
What is a pitch?
This features everything that happened to a character from birth until the time a story begins.
What is the interior of a character?
He oversaw the creations of such TV series as The Jeffersons, All in the Family, and Good Times.
Who is Norman Lear?
Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and The Andy Griffith Show were just a few of the top rated shows throughout this decade.
What is the 1960s?
Single camera television comedies are typically in production for this many days.
What is 5 days?
These written statements should feature a goal, an antagonist, and a protagonist while only being one to two sentences long.
What is a logline?
These are what the audience and other characters see about a character during the run of a television series.
What are the exterior characteristics?
He created the series Lost and said that the secret ingredient for any show is character.
Who is Damon Lindelof?
Beavis and Butthead, Family Guy, and South Park are three animated series that debuted in this decade.
What is the 1990s?
Multi-cam television shows are typically shot in front of a live audience in this many hours.
What are 3 to 4 hours?
Introducing the world of a series, establishing characters, and setting up tone should be a part of what episode of a TV series?
What is the pilot?
This drives a series storyline, often changes during a series, and might get stated in a line of dialogue.
What is the dramatic need of a character?
As president of NBC in the 1980s, he turned around the network with shows like the Bill Cosby Show, Cheers, and Seinfeld.
Who is Brandon Tartikoff
"Relevance" TV, such as the Mary Tyler Moore Show and All in the Family was kicked off in this decade.
What is the 1970s?
Writers, Actors, and Directors represent these types of costs during television production.
What are "fixed" costs?
This large state along the Mexico border does not offer tax credits for film and television costs thus is not a great state from which to sell a series being filmed.
What is Texas?
These types of TV shows make characters out of ordinary people, expose flaws, and then often exploit a person.
What are reality shows?
He changed dramatic television as VP/CEO of HBO.
Who is Chris Albrecht?
The gothic daytime soap opera Dark Shadows, featuring vampires, werewolves, witches, and ghosts began in this decade.
What is the 1960s?
This 2010 World War 2 set series was more expensive to produce than The Crown, The Morning Show, and Friends.
What is The Pacific?
If you were trying to sell a series such as The Beverly Hillbillies or Green Acres you'd probably not get it sold in the early 1970s due to this.
What is the Rural Purge?
Don Draper was a character who was family oriented, a gifted thinker, and also a womanizer on this series.
What is Mad Men?