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Running the Show

Television from the Inside

Jeff Melvoin

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Applause
01 September 2023
Running the Show takes you inside building a show from the ground up and what a showrunner's life looks like in Hollywood. This unique job covers aspects from the creative to the managerial and everything in between.

Seasoned showrunner Jeffrey Melvoin shares his fascinating insider's perspective on how to call the shots and make the final decisions when choosing and writing scripts, hiring staff, casting, making the budget, and juggling schedules. Along with the managerial responsibilities that keep the show afloat, they are also the visionary for the series and the characters. Melvoin describes how to confidently communicate abstract ideas so they can become the show's reality.

Running the Show reveals the ethical side of show running and writing with humor, integrity, and wisdom.

As a writer/producer/showrunner, Jeffrey Melvoin has worked on over a dozen series including Designated Survivor and Killing Eve. He has taught courses at USC, UCLA, and Harvard, led workshops at the Sundance Institute and the American Film Institute, and chaired the Writers Guild of America's Showrunner Training Program. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.
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Imprint:   Applause
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 223mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   499g
ISBN:   9781493075294
ISBN 10:   1493075292
Pages:   320
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

As a writer and producer, Jeff Melvoin has worked on more than a dozen series, contributing to over 375 hours of one-hour drama as a showrunner. He’s worked in every platform on Emmy-award winning shows. He has taught at USC, UCLA and Harvard, and led workshops at the Sundance Institute, the American Film Institute, and Northwestern. He speaks at professional conferences around the world, and for the past twenty years, he has chaired the Writers Guild of America’s Showrunner Training Program, a six-week master class for emerging writer-producers.

Reviews for Running the Show: Television from the Inside

Running The Show is as valuable to would-be showrunners as it is fascinating to veterans. Jeff Melvoin offers that rare combination: up-to-themoment accuracy about a changing television landscape and an insightful historical perspective. There's great advice in every chapter. For me, this was the best book on showrunning I've ever read. It's for anyone who wants to run shows or just know how they've been run across the years, even as the medium has changed greatly. It captures the many changes our business has gone through and the larger-than-life personalities and vast challenges one has to navigate and be successful at if you want the dream job of telling stories for TV. -- Greg Berlanti, Executive Producer of over twenty television series, including The Fllight Attendant, All American, You, Supergirl, and others. Jeff Melvoin is the oracle and Yoda of showrunning, and this book demonstrates his decades of hard work and earned wisdom running award-winning one-hour drama series. Melvoin is also the founder of the Writers Guild Showrunner Training Program, now entering its 18th year, guiding hundreds of top showrunners through the unique challenges and rewards of becoming a successful showrunner. Each compact chapter offers his experiences in the trenches, along with practical advice on developing, pitching, selling, getting staffed in a writers room, and, ultimately, running a show -- all with candor, nuance, humility, and humor. -- Neil Landau, Executive Director, MFA in Film, Television, and Digital Media at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia A wonderful ride through the raging waters of creating television. It's a book full of sharp insights, great advice and legitimate wisdom. -- J.J. Abrams, Jeffrey Jacob Abrams, American filmmaker and composer Melvoin has done pretty much everything in this business. And, more fundamentally, thought about everything. I recommend this book for any writer, or aspiring writer. -- David Shore, producer and writer, The Good Doctor, House


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