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Contribution: Showrunners and Head writers
Hi All,
We have published a new contribution guideline around showrunners and head writers.
A showrunner is the unofficial title given to the top-level creative decision maker and manager overseeing all episodes of an individual season of a television/episodic series. A head writer is the title (sometimes unofficial) given to the top-level writer who oversees the team of writers working on an individual season of a television/episodic series.
Although rarely credited on-screen, you can now add the Showrunner and Head writer attributes to producer and writer credits on IMDb and IMDbPro. Please see our new article explaining how to do this: Showrunners and Head Writers
Many thanks,
Taylor
Peter_pbn
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5 years ago
1. It is not possible to add those attributes to a writer credit which already has an attribute, nor to add a new writer credit with two different credit attributes. Two different rejection messages may appear, both are shown below.
It is possible to add a new writer credit with (showrunner) or (head writer), but I guess it would be displayed as an additional credit on title pages, not as an additional attribute for an existing writing credit.
2. When it says, "with the new attribute '(showrunner)' or '(head writer)' depending on the type of show (detailed in guidelines below)," I was expecting the guidelines to say something about which attribute is used for different types of shows, but I don't think they do.
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Peter_pbn
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5 years ago
I want to register my objection to misrepresenting credits by displaying such roles as credited when they are not.
Your writers guidelines say, "The IMDb policy is to list the attribute exactly as it appears on screen," but you are being inconsistent.
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Peter_pbn
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5 years ago
It would be a good idea to add a reference to this policy to the Writers and Producers guides, including the versions that appear in the edit feature.
Please also add a note about credit order for writers. I assume the credit order should be left blank for these new credits.
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Peter_pbn
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4 years ago
Perhaps it's a bit unsatisfying that showrunner attributes in the producer section are not displayed on full cast and crew series pages.
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4 years ago
I just want to circle back to this rather than start a new thread.
How have so many shows lately ended up with duplicate credits?
So often now I one onscreen credit presented as this:
Joe Bloggs....executive producer (showrunner) / executive producer
Did someone just, instead of correcting existing credits add a new credit with an attribute or were former 'showrunner' credits already listed and converted in the system to EP credits automatically?
Basically is this an IMDb move or is someone being a tool, is what I'm asking.
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