The paraphrase of the Variety article gets it wrong; Joe Dante and I are both
executive producers, and I'm the designated showrunner.
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>I understood the problem with the article. However, it didn't explain
>what the involvement of each Joe is in the production. One assumes Joe
>Dante might have some role beyond figurehead, for example. That was my
>question. Perhaps JMS might clarify?
The problem is not in the original article in Variety, only in the paraphrase
on one site. The Cinescape site, I believe, got the information right.
(Articles like those in Variety are copyrighted, so they can't repost the whole
text; instead they paraphrase, and sometimes inaccuracies slip in.)
To clarify: every show has multiple executive producers these days. Shows like
the X-Files have something like 3 or 4. But at the end of the day, only one of
these is the actual show-runner.
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