0 a person who is in charge of a TV series and has control over creative and management decisions that relate to it:
What are the contents of this telephone call which comes so rapidly to the executive producer?
To do it one must have executive producers of exceptional ability, and the executive producer in this country is the rarest fruit of the industry.
Suppose, however, that the executive producer and the executive director were the same person—which can happen.
At the end of the day, when they have to appoint a programme controller or executive producer, they will go to somebody within the business who has experience.
I rang the executive producer this morning.
He would sit with his strategic functions on the top of a natural, symmetrical organisation, instead of being at one moment a co-ordinator and at the next an executive producer.
The 2 shows have the same director and executive producer.
Chulack was an executive producer from the tenth season until the series ended with the fifteenth season.