pudge's Journal: Produce, Old Woman, Produce Like The Wind

I'm watching the latest episode of The Office and I see the name of Michael Schur as a "co-executive producer." I enjoy Schur's writing at Fire Joe Morgan (as "Ken Tremendous") so it caught my eye.

Then I saw several other producers named after him. So I rewound.

I counted six "executive producers," eight "co-executive producers," two "consulting producers," one "producer," and one more person that the show was "produced by."

I have some experience adding by more than ones, so I say with confidence that the show had at least 18 producers in the credits.

I'm no Ben Silverman, or Greg Daniels, or Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant, or Howard Klein, or Paul Lieberstein, but that seems like a lot to me.

Cross-posted on <pudge/*>.

Pretty standard

[fpophoto]

Happens in the movie biz too, although there it's more "doing a favour for the studio boss' retarded cousin" whereas in TV it's the equivalent of tenure.

Re:

[turg]

Yeah. As I understand it, these not-quite-a-producer credits are the only thing in the credits that aren't specifically defined by some union contract or other. So if you want to give someone a higher-status credit without actually having to meet any particular standard, then this is how you do it.

however they do it

[stoolpigeon]

that show is awesome.