showrunner

From show +‎ runner.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈʃoʊˌɹʌnɚ/

showrunner (plural showrunners)

1. (television) The person in overall charge of the production of a television series.

   Synonym: (US) helmer

   • 2007 November 3, Brooks Barnes, “With Resolution Unlikely, Writers Guild Sets Strike for Monday”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Those so-called showrunners, the thousand or so people who share both writing and managerial duties on television shows, have already been squeezed by conflicting demands from guild leaders and company employers.

   • 2013, Bethany Rooney, Mary Lou Belli, Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing, →ISBN, page 66:

     The person at the apex of the production triangle is the showrunner: in short, the boss.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃouraneɾ/ [ˈʃou̯.ra.neɾ]
  • Rhymes: -ouraneɾ
• IPA^(key): /ʃouˈraneɾ/ [ʃou̯ˈra.neɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aneɾ
• Syllabification: show‧run‧ner

showrunner m or f by sense (plural showrunners or showrunner)

1. showrunner