Produce Yourself

Do showrunners save the day taking over an existing show or is it luck of the draw?  The concept of showrunners being replaced is foreign to Terence, and Ian explains that was a situation he had to walk into.  So when is someone not a true showrunner?  When do you include the whole crew in the decision process vs being a tyrant?  Finally, the guys discuss how many rounds of notes a network gets during post and what that schedule looks like. Executive Producers, showrunners, and production company owners -- Terence Michael and Ian Gelfand have produced over 50 television series and 20 feature films between the two of them.  They're also entrepreneurs, with businesses outside of film and tv, from real estate to start-ups.  Ian lives in New York.  Terence lives in Los Angeles.  This podcast was born from a series of neurotic telephone conversations that began after Terence returned from Louisiana,where he's the executive producer of Duck Dynasty, and attempted to prepare Ian to come onboard the next season to di