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You are not logged in. Please login or register. Best big showrunner?Forums - Next Episode → -- Polls → Best big showrunner? Posts: 25
Topic: Best big showrunner?Behind every good TV show is the person who created it, and runs everything behind the scenes. Everyone on the list I've chosen have each created at least two successful TV shows over the years. Who do you think has done the best job? Consistent quality, interesting characters, the best storylines. Who's your choice?
Re: Best big showrunner?Again, as always, there are too many choises... I picked Seth MacFarlane because Family Guy is just the best... ...where did I put that rat's ass I could give?
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Re: Best big showrunner?Can't go wrong with Whedon. Re: Best big showrunner?I gave my vote to Whedon as well, because he's never disappointed me. However, I do think David E. Kelley is missing from the list - creator of Boston Public, Boston Legal, The Practice and Ally McBeal. I love his way of keeping all his series in a universe of its own
Re: Best big showrunner?You left out the daddy of them all. "To be born English is to win the lottery of life." Cecil Rhodes 1853-1902
"The man was right." Maccool111 1955-20** Re: Best big showrunner?You left out a lot of famous ones. Besides David E. Kelley and Dick Wolf, here are some others, off the top of my head:
Re: Best big showrunner?Ronald Moore. heart Battlestar Galactica.
Re: Best big showrunner?ellkay wrote:
Oh of course!!! D'uh! What can I say, I'm an idiot!
Re: Best big showrunner?rav97 wrote:
Ooh, I didn't know Rob Thomas did Cupid. Interesting. I have to admit, I did think about Alan Ball, but my personal bias kept him off the list - I'm not a fan! I'll agree with you on the other two though - well thought of!
Re: Best big showrunner?maccool111 wrote:
Huh, I must admit I didn't think of him. Probably because I have never watched any of the Law & Order franshise ever! He just didn't even occur to me. Good one though.
Re: Best big showrunner?Duh. Of course I picked Whedon! "The hammer - is my penis."
Re: Best big showrunner?Firefly is enough reason for me to pick Joss Whedon..
Re: Best big showrunner?I dont know what big is in this context. But The stargate guys gotta be in this category. Jonathan Glassner Re: Best big showrunner?Gene Roddenberry?
Re: Best big showrunner?yeah, they all have a lot to answer for... but Whedon's a hands down winner... and to whomever listed Cupid, et al... the op said 'successful' shows... i'm going to eat your brains and gain your memories...
17 2008-09-09 11:11:32 (edited by BenTheMan 2008-09-09 11:13:41)
Re: Best big showrunner?Aaron Sorkin & David E. Kelley honorable mention: Shawn Ryan
Re: Best big showrunner?And the winner is... kind of predictable really. Well done to Joss Whedon with 24.1% of the vote. But it was closer than I thought, with JJ Abrams coming in second with 23%. I wonder if the answer would change once Fringe and Dollhouse have shown their first seasons... 19 2008-09-10 22:01:47 (edited by Halo2 2008-09-10 22:02:29)
Re: Best big showrunner?Should do a heads up with both, later in Jan   
Re: Best big showrunner?but does JJ really qualify as a showrunner.... it's pretty well documented that he never had more than a pinky in the Lost pool after the pilot, so what, that leaves the girl with the hair show, and the bank one... and yeah, they were both memorable... methinks JJ should be disqualified... i'm going to eat your brains and gain your memories...
Re: Best big showrunner?Halo2 wrote:
Well Dollhouse doesn't start until January, so it would probably have to be May. But I might just do that. theConundrumm wrote:
... o.O That's how you describe Felicity and Alias? Interesting. But no, I wasn't really thinking about Lost with him. Damon Lindelof and Jeffrey Lieber have done all the hard work. But those two, and now Fringe - I think he qualifies. 22 2008-09-11 08:01:05 (edited by theConundrumm 2008-09-11 08:04:09)
Re: Best big showrunner?yeppers... that's how i describe Felicity & Alias... mostly because i just couldn't think of their names and didn't deem it worth looking up... but yeah, maybe he DOES qualify.... i'll eat shit on that one, or plead ignorance... whatever works and i wouldn't be too quick to call Fringe a win yet... i liked it, but about six months ago i said enough to the 'big bad corporation' doing dirty deeds under the publics nose show/comic/whatever... and surely i wasn't the only one [and for a good take on the BBC check out Grant Morrison's 'Marvel Boy' graphic nov... aw fuck, it's a comic...] and honestly, napping aside, Fringe had me hooked up until that reared it's head... [The Middleman, however... playing it perfectly.... but what would you expect my end of the day overview of JJ is basically this... he's an over-rated, decidedly average director, lousy at writing dialogue... but the plotting and high octane concepts.... he knocks them out of the park... but as always, karenbear, you are right.... i'm going to eat your brains and gain your memories...
Re: Best big showrunner?Please don't tell women they're always right... The trouble you'll get... No kitty that's a bad kitty!
Re: Best big showrunner?theConundrumm wrote:
You assume I don't actually agree with you. And I am always right!
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Alan Ball's alright, but from what i saw of the first ep of TrueBlood... no success coming there i'm afraid.... and Cupid... the show soooo successful they HAVE to try again a second time...
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