Lecture, three hours. Course 292B is not requisite to 292C. Exploration of role of writers-producers or showrunners in creating television shows. Designed to train writers who typically enter field as staff writers and to develop concrete tools of producers. Training of next generation of nonwriting network and studio development executives whose job it is to assist writers-producers in highly collaborative process of creating, developing, producing, and scheduling television programming. S/U or letter grading.