- published: 23 May 2011
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The primary role of a television producer is to oversee all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking. It is often the producer who is responsible for the television show's overall quality and survivability, though the roles depend on the particular show or organization.
Some producers take more of an executive role, in that they conceive new programs and pitch them to the television networks, but upon acceptance they focus on business matters, such as budgets and contracts. Other producers are more involved with the day-to-day workings, participating in activities such as screenwriting, set design, casting, and even directing.
In television, there are a variety of different producers on a television show. A traditional producer is one who manages a show's budget and maintains a schedule, but this is no longer the case in modern television. Currently, the producer and writer are usually the same person.
Different types of Producers in the industry today include (in order of seniority):
Actors: Donnell Rawlings (actor), Gerry Bednob (actor), Gerry Bednob (producer), Angela Elayne Gibbs (director), Valmike Rampersad (actor), Richie Gibbs (editor), Richie Gibbs (actor), Rafael J. Noble (actor), Michael Cherrie (actor), Todd Segal (actor), Kearn Samuel (actor), Kerri Tucker (actress), Stephanie Brennan (actress), Alan Ferreira (actor), Simon Baptiste (writer),
Plot: Investigative journalist extraordinaire Emmanuel Brown (Valmike Rampersad) sets to make his mark in television history by exposing a corrupt politician, John Tesoro (Gerry Bednob - The 40 Year Old Virgin) in his documentary special, "The Rise & Fall of John Tesoro". Brown's expose; focuses on the immoral and deceitful practices of Tesoro and his dubious rise to power. Confronted and cornered on pertinent issues dealing with the economy, his political actions, his checkered lifestyle and a few extraordinary situations he has found himself in over the years, the question remains if Tesoro can get out of trouble once more or if his luck has finally run out?
Keywords: fall, john, politics, rise, tesoroActors: Atom Egoyan (writer), Atom Egoyan (producer), Robert Lantos (producer), Colin Firth (actor), Seán Cullen (actor), Gabrielle Rose (actress), David Hemblen (actor), Kevin Bacon (actor), Don McKellar (actor), Maury Chaykin (actor), Michael J. Reynolds (actor), David Hayman (actor), Beau Starr (actor), Atom Egoyan (director), Mychael Danna (composer),
Plot: A female journalist tries to uncover the truth behind the breakup, years earlier, of a celebrated comedy team after the duo found a girl dead in their hotel room. Though both had airtight alibis and neither was accused, the incident put an end to their act.
Keywords: 1950s, 1970s, actor, adultery, afterlife, airplane, airplane-stewardess, airport, anal-sex, anti-semitic-slurActors: Eric Norcross (producer), Eric Norcross (director), Eric Norcross (editor), Eric Norcross (writer), Eric Norcross (actor), Kyle Rankin (actor), Gregory Seymore (actor), Alan Dillingham (actor), Branden Geistert (actor), Cade Brown (actor), Brian Hinds (actor), Cade Brown (producer), Cade Brown (writer), Steven Savage (actor), Mark Persky (actor),
Plot: Three unlikely individuals get stuck in an elevator on New Years Eve, just as the clock is about to strike midnight. Missing out on the first hours of 2005, trapped between the fifteenth and sixteenth floors of a prestigious residential building, they pass the time by telling one-another stories, some from their past lives and others completely fictitious.
Keywords: arch, death, filmmaker, murder, new-england, new-year, vancouver-british-columbia-canada, winterActors: Peter Stormare (actor), Ed Koch (actor), Bai Ling (actress), John Cale (composer), Sandra Bernhard (actress), Ornella Muti (actress), Bulle Ogier (actress), Bill Sage (actor), Robert John Burke (actor), Jessica Dublin (actress), Andrew Fiscella (actor), Linda Dano (actress), Joey Dedio (actor), Nellie Sciutto (actress), Steven Schub (actor),
Plot: The film portrays life of New York City's Lower East Side inhabitants. Introvert therapist Betty is befriended with Chinese immigrant Lu Lu, leftist radical Che is also Lu Lu's friend. Italian immigrant and wife of supervisor of building where they all live, Marta, is having an affair with her neighbour Frankie who likes scams. One of his scams goes terribly wrong.
Keywords: independent-filmActors: Michael Herz (producer), Lloyd Kaufman (producer), Rick LeCompte (editor), Mitchell Nyberg (miscellaneous crew), Karl-Heinz Teuber (actor), Joe Renzetti (composer), Richard Neil (actor), Kellie Cyrus (miscellaneous crew), Brian Vouglas (actor), Derek-James Yee (actor), Gloria Lusiak (actress), David Furtado (actor), Heidi Arneson (miscellaneous crew), George Merriweather (director), George Merriweather (producer),
Genres: Comedy, Thriller,Actors: Don McManus (actor), Malachy McCourt (actor), Adam LeFevre (actor), Tom Hanks (actor), Richard Libertini (actor), Alan King (actor), Clifton James (actor), Barton Heyman (actor), F. Murray Abraham (actor), Kurt Fuller (actor), Morgan Freeman (actor), Richard Belzer (actor), Kevin Dunn (actor), Jack Mulcahy (actor), Donald Moffat (actor),
Plot: Financial "Master of the Universe" Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss.
Keywords: accident, alcoholic, arbitrage, bar, based-on-novel, black-comedy, blackmail, bond-salesman, box-office-flop, bronx-new-york-cityActors: Albert Wolsky (costume designer), Charles H. Joffe (producer), Jack Rollins (producer), Woody Allen (writer), Meryl Streep (actress), Diane Keaton (actress), Robert Greenhut (producer), David Rasche (actor), Karen Allen (actress), Frances Conroy (actress), Wallace Shawn (actor), Woody Allen (actor), Michael Murphy (actor), Woody Allen (director), Mariel Hemingway (actress),
Plot: Isaac, 42, has divorced Jill. She is now living with another woman, Connie, and is writing a book in which she will reveal some very private points of their relationship. Isaac has a love affair with Tracy, 17, when he meets Mary, the mistress of his best friend Yale. Yale is already married to Emily.
Keywords: 1970s, adultery, age-difference, bookstore, break-up, cafe, central-park-manhattan-new-york-city, clothing-store, college, comedy-of-mannersActors: Wim Wenders (actor), William Forsythe (actor), Stephen Frears (actor), John Boorman (actor), Susannah York (actress), Alan Bennett (actor), Manuel Gélin (miscellaneous crew), Sanford Lieberson (actor), Maurice Bulbulian (actor), Charles Gormley (actor), Toby Reisz (miscellaneous crew), Howard Sharp (editor), Suzanne Danielle (actress), Maurice Hatton (producer), Maurice Hatton (writer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Chuck Hicks (actor), Ray Montgomery (actor), Cosmo Sardo (actor), Jeffrey Sayre (actor), Alberto Morin (actor), William H. O'Brien (actor), Carroll O'Connor (actor), Tony Curtis (actor), William Phipps (actor), Bob Hope (actor), George DeNormand (actor), Nicky Blair (actor), William Bakewell (actor), Arthur Tovey (actor), George C. Scott (actor),
Plot: During the Korean War, Italian nurse Virna Lisi falls in love with two American fliers, Tony Curtis and George C. Scott. Lisi marries Curtis after he convinces her that Scott has been killed in a plane crash. She soon discovers Scott is alive, but remains happily married to Curtis until Scott re-enters their lives 14 years later.
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