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Negotiating Authorship: Showrunners on Twitter VI

December 19, 2013
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Negotiating Authorship: Showrunners on Twitter VI

Twitter serves not only as a platform for high-profile showrunners, but also a space where more nuanced television authorship is negotiated by writer-producers.
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The Personal Stakes of Social Media: Showrunners [Off] Twitter V

October 16, 2013
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The Personal Stakes of Social Media: Showrunners [Off] Twitter V

When a showrunner chooses to remove themselves from Twitter, they are removing themselves from not only professional opportunity but also a space for self-expression.
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Report From the TV Academy Faculty Seminar (Part 1)

November 21, 2012
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Report From the TV Academy Faculty Seminar (Part 1)

A group of TV Studies faculty share their impressions from a week-long Television Academy seminar.
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Promoting an Uncertain Future: Showrunners (on Hiatus) on Twitter IV

January 5, 2012
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Promoting an Uncertain Future: Showrunners (on Hiatus) on Twitter IV

With NBC's Community and ABC's Cougar Town on hiatus, their respective showrunners' Twitter accounts become key outlets for implicitly or explicitly encouraging fan involvement and/or activism.
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The Rise and Fall of @Sutterink: Showrunners [Off] Twitter III

August 14, 2011
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The Rise and Fall of @Sutterink: Showrunners [Off] Twitter III

While it was perhaps inevitable that Sutter’s lack of a filter would result in his Twitter account becoming a liability, the rise and fall of “@sutterink” has more to do with public perceptions of Twitter than with his actual commentary.
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A Showrunner Goes To War: Doctor Who and the Almost Fans?

June 6, 2011
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A Showrunner Goes To War: Doctor Who and the Almost Fans?

With episode 6.06 having transmitted in the US, and 6.07 – the 'game-changing' midseries finale – already broadcast in the UK, this week seems like a good time to ponder the issue of Doctor Who spoilers.
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Neil Gaiman’s Doctor Who: Fan Service Meets the Junkyard Look

May 16, 2011
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Neil Gaiman’s Doctor Who: Fan Service Meets the Junkyard Look

There's an illusion of transformative work here – although this seems to alter the rules of the Whoniverse, in fact it leaves all the game pieces in play as they were.
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Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who: Challenging the Format Theorem?

May 2, 2011
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Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who: Challenging the Format Theorem?

Moffat challenges the TV industry establishment far more notably than did series one through four. He's the Tom Baker to Russell T. Davies's Jon Pertwee.
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Lessons from Los Angeles: Top Takeaways from the TV Academy (Part Two)

November 23, 2010
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Lessons from Los Angeles: Top Takeaways from the TV Academy (Part Two)

The second in our two-part series on the Television Academy of Arts & Sciences Foundation's faculty seminar.
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Lessons from Los Angeles: Top Takeaways from the TV Academy (Part One)

November 22, 2010
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Lessons from Los Angeles: Top Takeaways from the TV Academy (Part One)

The first in our two-part series on the Television Academy of Arts & Sciences Foundation's faculty seminar.
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Replying with the Enemy: Showrunners on Twitter II

November 11, 2010
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Replying with the Enemy: Showrunners on Twitter II

For showrunners, the risks and rewards of replying to Twitter users are magnified: replying could create a sense of a personal relationship with their followers, but getting into long conversations with fans (especially antagonistic fans) could spark controversy.
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Tweets of Anarchy: Showrunners on Twitter

September 17, 2010
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Tweets of Anarchy: Showrunners on Twitter

For today's television showrunner, Twitter is simultaneously rife with potential and littered with pitfalls.
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Report from SCMS: Saturday

March 21, 2010
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Report from SCMS: Saturday

In addition to granting Midwesterners like me the chance to reintroduce the concept of sunshine to our bare arms, another one of the advantageous by-products of the Los Angeles setting for the SCMS conference this year has been the opportunity for film and TV industry professionals to join our discussions. Saturday’s sessions offered the...
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