Unveiling Jeffrey Lieber: The Untold Secrets Behind His Masterful Storytelling
Jennifer Johnson was the creator of “Chase” and she was great. So I was both developing at the time and working on their staff.
Scott: How was that, working on two shows at one time?
Jeff: Co‑EP is kind of the sweet spot in television, which is to say, you have a lot of responsibility, and if you know what you’re doing, you can be very helpful, but there comes a point in every day where you go home and you go to bed and the creator or the showrunner or both are stuck trying to figure out how to keep the patient alive. So when you’re co‑EP you’re afforded a certain amount of freedom that you don’t get when you’re running your own show or you’re running somebody else’s show. So it was tough, because I had a lot to do. I had to both write the pilot I was writing and work on those shows, but in the co‑EP position, a lot of responsibilities and phone calls and meetings and notes just don’t bubble up to you, so you have a little freedom too.
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