A Jeff Melvoin Programme
presented by John Yorke Story
in association with MediaXchange
Duration: 9 Weeks
Skill level: Advanced
Sessions: 8
Date: 29 January 2024 – 7 April, 2024
Price: £3000 (inclusive of VAT)
Gain key insight into the creative and management best practices that make the US showrunner model so successful, and learn practical ways to use these processes wherever you work
Designed for head writers, established writers, producers and those in similar roles who aspire to take the next step into the lead creative role, and who are looking for a greater understanding of the producorial process for scripted TV drama series
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Jeff Melvoin, Emma Frost, Jeppe Jgervig Gram, Frank Spotnitz
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John Yorke, Sumera Srivastav, Alexander Cary, Charissa Sanjarernsuithikul, Craig Siebels, Katrina Wood
- Understanding the multiple roles and functions of a successful showrunner
within the constraints and specific opportunities - Becoming familiar with the development process, vocabulary, business models, production set-up and team structure
- Identifying and suggesting good story solutions, in outlines and scripts and when giving and receiving notes
- Practising the range of creative, practical, management and critical-thinking
skills required to run a show - Understanding how to apply the theory to practical tasks within your own professional context
- Developing a plan to accelerate your career
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JEFF MELVOIN IS AN EMMY-WINNING WRITER-PRODUCER AND SHOWRUNNER AND EDUCATOR
Jeff has worked on over a dozen primetime series and was showrunner on eight of them. In all, he’s been involved in over 470 hours of produced television, most recently as an executive producer on season three of Killing Eve. Other executive producer credits include Designated Survivor, Army Wives, Alias and Picket Fences
He was supervising producer of the CBS series Northern Exposure, for which he won an Emmy and two Golden Globe Awards. Other writer-producer credits include the NBC series Hill Street Blues and Remington Steele
Melvoin is also founder and chair of the Writers Guild of America West’s celebrated Showrunner Training Program, now in its eighteenth year. In Feb, 2015, Melvoin received the Morgan Cox Award, the WGA’s highest recognition for Guild service.
He has taught at USC School of Cinematic Arts, UCLA, Harvard, and the Sundance Institute. Jeff has also lent his experience to the European Showrunner Programme, leading sessions at the inaugural edition in 2022 and will be returning in 2023
“Jeff Melvoin’s book is a gift to anyone who’s ever considered pursuing a career in television or wondered what a showrunner actually does!”
jOHN WELLS
WRITER, PRODUCER, DIRECTOR
(ER, THE WEST WING, SHAMeLESS)
jJ ABRAMS
WRITER, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER
(STAR WARS, STAR TREK,
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, ALIAS)
“There’s no one in the field who has mentored as many young writers and contributed more to this generation of showrunning than Jeff Melvoin. A powerful and necessary read.”