Showrunner Al Jean remarked: " That was specifically done to make people really mad.

" Showrunner " is one of these terms, with many non-writing producers recently trying to claim the term, as the Canadian TV industry has traditionally been a line-producer driven industry.

Showrunner David Simon has said that Dickerson is the show's directorial work horse and that he knows the show as well as the producers ; Simon has praised Dickerson's directing saying that he " delivers each time ".

Showrunner Joseph Mallozzi mentioned the possibility that a Replicator lied or misinformed the Atlantis team when she said that Weir was killed.

" Showrunner " is a term of art originating in the United States television industry referring to the person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television seriesalthough such persons generally are credited as an executive producer or supervising producer.

Partly due to this confusion and controversy, in 2007 The Writers Guild of Canada, the union representing screenwriters in Canada, established the Showrunner Award at the annual Canadian Screenwriting Awards, partially to call attention to this fact, and to the role of " writing " as an essential component of the showrunner title.

The first " Showrunner Award " was presented to Brad Wright, Executive Producer of Stargate Atlantis, and Stargate SG-1, in April 2007.

Showrunner Bob Higgins told Ability Magazine that the decision to create a new Ghostbusters was taken by the studio, which hoped to reinvigorate a lucrative franchise.

The founding production team behind " Cheap Seats " included Mark Shapiro, Showrunner, Todd Pellegrino, James Cohen and Joseph Maar.

Showrunner Russell T Davies came up with the final title of " Father's Day " in February 2005, shortly before the series began airing.

Jeffrey Lieber is currently serving as an Executive Producer and Showrunner on the USA Network show Necessary Roughness.

For season six of Dexter, Buck was moved into the Showrunner position.

In April 2007, in recognition of his efforts to promote Canadian writing talent, and to recognize his efforts as the primary creative writing force on the Stargate shows, Wright was presented with the inaugural " Showrunner Award " at the Canadian Screenwriting Awards in Toronto.

In 2008, Green was the Head Writer / Showrunner of the television pilot Bunker Hill, starring Donnie Wahlberg and Bridget Moynahan and directed by Jon Avnet.

Among the irregular contributors with just a single Mad byline to their credit are Charles M. Schulz, Chevy Chase, " Weird Al " Yankovic, Andy Griffith, Will Eisner, Kevin Smith, J. Fred Muggs, Boris Vallejo, Sir John Tenniel, Jean Shepherd, Winona Ryder, Jimmy Kimmel, Jason Alexander, Walt Kelly, Rep. Barney Frank, Tom Wolfe, Steve Allen, Jim Lee, Jules Feiffer, Donald Knuth and Richard Nixon, who remains the only President credited with " writing " a Mad article.

* January 9 – Al Jean, American writer for " The Simpsons "

They pitched their idea to show runner Al Jean.

There is also a booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Wood, Chaplin ’ s 1940 New York Times defense of his movie, a reprint from critic Jean Narboni on the film ’ s final speech, and Al Hirschfeld ’ s original press book illustrations.

The Simpsons writer Al Jean commented that Grampa is often the focus of pointed jokes about old people.

Al Jean, who thinks of Smithers as being a " Burns-sexual ", felt that had Mr. Burns been a woman, then Smithers would not be gay.

Executive producers James L. Brooks and Al Jean confirmed that the character was not dead, but he just fainted, and he would be " brought back to life à la Dr. Marvin Monroe ".

Show runner Al Jean remarked: " That was specifically done to make people really mad.

They offered their script to show runner Al Jean.

According to executive producer Al Jean, the writers often used McClure as a " panic button " and added the character when they felt an episode needed more humor.

Executive producer Al Jean has compared Bob's character to that of Wile E. Coyote, noting that both are intelligent, yet always foiled by what they perceive as an inferior intellect.

In a 2007 interview, Simpsons executive producer Al Jean listed Grammer as one of his favorite guest stars ( second only to Phil Hartman ), saying " his voice is so rich.

" The name " Santa's Little Helper " was chosen because, according to writer Al Jean in the same TV Guide article, " we needed a name that would inspire Homer to bet on him, an omen, a Christmas name since he was betting on Christmas Eve.

Mimi Pond wrote the episode and staff writer Al Jean came up with the title.

Al Minns and Leon James are often considered authoritative figures in the academic discussion of Lindy Hop, in part for their work with Marshall and Jean Stearns ( in their book Jazz Dance and documentary films ).

* " Tell That To The Marines " w. Harold Atteridge & Al Jolson m. Jean Schwartz

In 1977 Al Guest and Jean Mathieson of Rainbow Animation were commissioned by Capitol Records to create the first animated rock video of the Klaatu song " A Routine Day ".

The funeral attracted thousands of spectators who came to view the arrival of countless stars from MGM and other studios, including Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, the Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Howard Hughes, Al Jolson, Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks, among the stars.

Although the episode was scripted by Adam I. Lapidus, " Love That God " was written by Mike Reiss, Al Jean and Sam Simon.

* The Rite of Strings ( with Al Di Meola and Jean Luc Ponty ) ( 1995 )

The episode was written by Al Jean and Mike Reiss, and was directed by Wes Archer.

Groening felt that the episode was a thirty-minute advertisement for Brooks ' show The Critic, ( which had moved to Fox from ABC for its second season ) and was created by former The Simpsons show runners Al Jean and Mike Reiss, and whose lead character Jay Sherman appears in the episode.

" On the audio commentary for the episode, executive producer Al Jean said the line was " probably " written by The Simpsons staff writer Ken Keeler.

Vance was the first African American woman to become a SNL repertory player ( not to be confused with Yvonne Hudson from season six, who first appeared as a recurring extra for season four and season five and was hired as a feature player during Jean Doumanian's notoriously shaky sixth season ), the only SNL cast member to have a learning disability ( Vance was dyslexic and, according to Al Franken in the book, Live from New York: The Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, Vance had trouble memorizing lines and reading cue cards, though it wasn't made apparent in most cases and, in one case, was covered up by ad-libbing ), was the first lesbian cast member hired ( though her sexual orientation wasn't known until her death ), and the only black lesbian cast member as of 2012.

* Bozman, Jean ; Gillen, Al ; Kolodgy, Charles ; Kusnetzky, Dan ; Perry, Randy ; & Shiang, David ( October 2002 ).

Al has added some sidemen to the act which makes for a smoother operation but it's substantially the same format heard last spring.

According to the Boston Globe ( as reported on May 18, 2010 ), the town has renamed its amphitheater in the artist's honor, and is looking to develop an Al Capp Museum.

Both films feature Al Pacino in what has become a fruitful working relationship.

Other actors that De Palma has worked with on more than one occasion include Jennifer Salt ( The Wedding Party, Hi, Mom !, and Sisters ), Charles Durning ( Hi, Mom !, Sisters, and The Fury ), Al Pacino ( Scarface and Carlito's Way ), John Lithgow ( Obsession, Blow Out and Raising Cain ), Sean Penn ( Casualties of War and Carlito's Way ), Amy Irving ( Carrie, The Fury and Casualties of War ( uncredited voice-over )), and John Travolta ( Carrie, Blow Out ).

The Canadian Jewish Congress has expressed its opinion over possible anti-Semitic incitement on this station and that the restrictions on Al Jazeera are appropriate, while the Canadian B ' nai Brith is opposed to any approval of Al Jazeera in Canada.

Since the dissolution of Dead Kennedys, Biafra has continued to collaborate and record with other artists, including Mojo Nixon, Al Jourgensen of Ministry, and the Melvins, and has become a spoken word performer, covering political topics in particular.

The fictional Elbonia has some visual and thematic similarities to the fictional country of Lower Slobbovia in Al Capp's long-running strip Li ' l Abner, where the impoverished citizens, who suffered under corrupt government, were perpetually seen in waist-deep snow.

The government has considered the Western Desert a frontier region and has divided it into two governorates at about the twenty-eighth parallel: Matruh to the north and New Valley ( Al Wadi al Jadid ) to the south.

North Sinai has its capital at Al Arish and the South Sinai has its capital in Artt Turkishy.

SOE has devoted one server ( Al ' Kabor ) to an OS X version of the game.

After retiring, he became a sports broadcaster and has worked for the BBC, Al Jazeera Sports and Eredivisie Live.

American and Israeli counter-terrorism officials claim that Hezbollah has ( or had ) links to Al Qaeda, although Hezbollah's leaders deny these allegations.

Al Qaeda now has a presence in the country, in the form of several terrorist groups formerly led by Abu Musab Al Zarqawi.

Al Hajarah has a complex topography of rocky desert, wadis, ridges, and depressions.

* Al Basrah has limited functionality

The perceived threat to Iraq in the summer of 1982 thus was serious enough to force Saddam Hussein to request the Nonaligned Movement to change the venue of its scheduled September meeting from Baghdad to India ; nevertheless, since the fall of 1982, the ground conflict has generally been a stalemated war of attrition — although Iran made small but demoralizing territorial advances as a result of its massive offensives in the reed marshes north of Basra in 1984 and in 1985, in Al Faw Peninsula in early 1986, and in the outskirts of Basra during January and February 1987.

In Cincinnati in October 2002, Bush informed the public: " Iraq has trained Al Qaeda members in bomb making and poisons and gases.

Keilhauite has a chemical formula of ( CaTi, Al < sub > 2 </ sub >, Fe < sub > 2 </ sub >< sup > 3 +</ sup >, Y < sub > 2 </ sub >< sup > 3 +</ sup >) SiO < sub > 5 </ sub >.

This has changed as major economic developments take place in other parts of the country, like oil exploration in the South, the Giad Industrial Complex in Al Jazirah state and White Nile Sugar Project in Central Sudan, and the Merowe Dam in the North.

Khartoum has one of the largest open markets or souqs, the Souq Al Arabi.