Claim: Two people have overall creative control and management responsibility for American Gods (TV series).
Evidence: Fuller and Green are the showrunners for the series.
In the parlance of the Hollywood television industry , a showrunner is a television series ' leading executive producer.
A showrunner 's duties often combine those traditionally assigned to the head writer , executive producer , and script editor.
In films , directors typically have creative control of a production -- but in television , the showrunner outranks the director.