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Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring... by jowday on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @01:25PM (#31991089)
He’s putting those in quotes because they’re generally not formal positions that are explicitly credited, but are informal phrases referring to whoever has final creative control over a series.
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Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring... by deelowe on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @01:32PM (#31991183)
That sounds like it's all a bit made up then...
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Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring... by cygx on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @01:56PM (#31991512)
Showrunners are a thing. See eg https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hollywood+repor... for some stories from the trenches.
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Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring... by jowday on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @01:38PM (#31991280)
It’s not. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showrunner
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Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring... by deelowe on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @06:01PM (#31994299)
So these are real terms then...
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