According to The Late Shift, in the beginning, Kushnick was the "executive producer" and Vickers held the title of just "producer".
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Wolper" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 3:32 PM Subject: [TV orNotTV] Re: Jay Walking... Away From Studio 3 > > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 2:03 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> A couple of questions: >> >> 1. At the end Leno thanked Debbie Vickers, who he said had been the >> executive producer since the beginning. We all know the story of the >> beginning of Leno's run at the Tonight Show, and I always thought >> Helen Kushnick had the title of executive producer then. Was she >> really still just his agent in title, while maybe functioning as the >> executive producer? Or did Leno just mean that Vickers had been with >> the show from the beginning, but not always as EP. > > A show can have more than one executive producer. I don't have a copy > of The Late Shift available to check out the details, so I will throw > this out as speculation: Kushnick was made an EP for her ego and to > keep the host happy, and Vickers had enough experience with NBC and/or > running a talk show that the network felt confident that she could run > the show day-to-day and be a conduit for network communications with > Jay, so she was also named an EP. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... Smart (TV) People on Ice! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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