NBC‘s high profile midseason drama series Believe, co-created and executive produced by Gravity director/co-writer Alfonso Cuaron and exec produced by J.J. Abrams, is undergoing a behind the scenes change. Executive producer/showrunner Dave Erickson is expected to depart. He will be succeeded by co-executive producer/director Jonas Pate who has been named executive producer/showrunner, a rare case of a director, not a writer taking the reins of a scripted serie. He directed the important second episode of the series that follows the pilot helmed by Cuaron. Pate joins executive producers Cuaron, Abrams, Bryan Burk as well as Hans Tobeason who will now serve as on-set producer in New York where the series films. This marks the second showrunner change on Believe. Co-creator/executive producer and original showrunner Mark Friedman left the series in July. To accommodate the showrunner transition, Believe is going on a holiday hiatus a week earlier that the previously scheduled Dec. 20 start. The extra week will be used to work on scripts. The series will resume production on Jan. 6 as originally scheduled.
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Another showrunner?! This is ridiculous. I really want this show to succeed but my faith in it surviving is fastly dwindling.....
ReplyDeleteYeah not a good sign
ReplyDeleteWTF why?
ReplyDeletedon't matter bout show runners as long as they keep emailing J.J. Abrams for advice!
ReplyDeleteNot a good sigh, but I do think Jonas Pate can handle it ( I like him as a director for sure so this doesn't bother me too much!).
ReplyDeleteWell although I agree, I think Cuaron is also what's going to make this a good thing. If he would exit, I don't think it would survive at all...
ReplyDeletein the past these things would not hurt a show till it aired after a while, because this much information wasn't available.
ReplyDeleteThat doesn't really bode well for the show. Especially since they are now using a director to run things, which means that someone, somewhere is letting his writer ego get in the way and was interfering with the showrunners.
ReplyDeleteoh yeah because Abrams knows how to get hits on tv... oh wait... no he doesn't.
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