showrunnern.
/ˈʃəʊˌrʌnə/, U.S. /ˈʃoʊˌrənər/ Originally North American.
1. A person who is in control of a particular event or activity. Cf. to run the show at show n.1 Phrases 2h(a). rare.
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1958 Daily News (Huntingdon, Pa.) 28 Feb. 6/6 He..smacks too heavy [sic] of being..the showrunner of GOP yesteryear.
1986 W. Blege Teaching for Devel. iv. 132 The status quo is immediately..threatened if a pupil asks a ‘naughty’ question, which the teacher cannot answer because, as soon as that happens, the child becomes the show runner, not the teacher.
2. Television. The executive producer having overall creative authority and management responsibility for a television programme.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > production of television broadcast > [noun] > people involved in television production > others
production director1915
production manager1927
television engineer1930
production assistant1932
vision-mixer1938
TV engineer1946
lighting cameraman1947
floor manager1960
helmer1974
showrunner1989
1989 Wall St. Jrnl. 2 Aug. b6/6 The riskiest part of Universal's gamble is that Mr. Marlens and Ms. Black haven't yet proved themselves as ‘show-runners’. Mr. Marlens lasted only a handful of episodes on ‘Growing Pains’ before departing.
1995 N.Y. Times 1/1 Day to day, a show runner makes all important decisions about the series' scripts, tone, attitude, look and direction.
2001 Dreamwatch Oct. 7/3 Straczynski will serve as the project's showrunner and executive producer.
2010 K. Richardson Television Dramatic Dialogue iv. 67 The vision of the show as a whole does not come from the freelance or even the staff writer, but from the showrunner.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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