Jennifer Johnson will be the day-to-day showrunner of Fox drama series The Following for its upcoming third season as part of an overall deal with The Following producer Warner Bros TV. She will replace at the helm of the Kevin Bacon-starring dark thriller creator/executive producer Kevin Williamson, who will remain an executive producer and very involved in the show but will focus his attention on his newest series, fall CBS drama Stalker. Williamson previously made a similar transition from the CW’s The Vampire Diaries, which is now run by co-developer Julie Plec, to The Following.
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Has Williamson ever walked in the third year of a show as showrunner?
ReplyDeleteBailed on Dawson's Creek after 2 and I think he passed TVD onto Plec after 2 as well.
This could be a good thing, this will probably be bad though. Not a good track record of him leaving a show. They usually get bad. Or maybe he leaves to make sure his name doesn't get involved in a downhill slope.
ReplyDeleteI think he left somewhere during/after the third season
ReplyDeleteI think this could be good. Having a female show runner could change the mood and tone of the show, maybe even giving it a fresh perspective especially after the events of last season
ReplyDeleteI don't think so, no. This is exactly what he did with TVD after season 2 and the quality decreased greatly because of it.
ReplyDeleteI'm not surprised. As soon as I saw he had a new show in the works I knew if it got picked up he would step down as the day-to-day showrunner for The Following. It's what he does - starts shows and then moves on after a couple of seasons. I hope she's a good fit for it and that the changes are positive ones. It'll be interesting to see if there's more focus on the female characters (like Max) now.
ReplyDeleteWilliamson sucks balls. Bring on the new show runner
ReplyDelete2 seasons later and were back to where we started in Season 1 minus Claire, Emma and the cults
Williamsom is the biggest quiter on tv.
ReplyDeleteMaybe this is good because this show could've been great but it is a mess.
But it is the same guy who named Julie Plec as his number 2
I'm happy for this because I really love the shows in which Jennifer Jonson was involved (Cold Case, Lost, Touch).
ReplyDeleteHe bails on every show just when he realises the show he's involved is going down in quality......next year,i'll wait a similar type of news where he WILL bail again from stalker to get involved in his new project!!
ReplyDelete"Kevin Williamson, who will remain an executive producer and very involved in the show but will focus his attention on his newest series,"
ReplyDeleteJust like what he did with TVD and Secret Circle. Then left Secret Circle for The Following.
Lets hope Jennifer is nowhere near as Julie Plec!
ReplyDeleteHe was only involved in the first four or five episodes of S3. His departure become obvious when the quality dropped in the second half of S3 and everything started revolving around the romantic storylines.
ReplyDeleteHe left TVD for The Following. He only helped develop The Secret Circle but he was never the show runner.
ReplyDeleteCan it be saved at this point? Everyone I know who used to watch has stopped including me. It's been awful.
ReplyDeleteTVD? I thought s3 of TVD was the best year--season 2 being a close second--because it paid off a lot of the mythology that had been built up since the first season, and the show's quality declined (steeply) after that. I felt like this year was the most disappointing. I don't know how to articulate it except to say that this season didn't really have much of a point.
ReplyDeleteThe show was pretty average as it is. Not sure how this change will effect it. Hopefully for the better, and hopefully less brain-dead and disorganized law enforcement and maniacs cults and groups working like well-oiled machines.
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