Walters, who co-owns the program with ABC, continues to serve as Co-Executive Producer, and appear as one of the co-hosts several days a week.

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Kirshner has been joined throughout the process by co-executive producer Mark Squier, a veteran political consultant who worked on Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign.

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"It's all the things that you do when you're young and trying to get someone to sleep with you, " said co-executive producer Judd Apatow.

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Dunham is the writer, director, co-star and co-executive producer.

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Alex Gansa, series co-creator and executive producer, recalled finding out that "Homeland" was President Obama's favorite show.

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To mark the occasion, The Wall Street Journal asked Mr. Aibel, co-artistic director Sarah Stern and executive producer Jennifer Garvey-Blackwell to talk about five productions that helped shape the theater's vision and success.

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Meredith Vieira 's days seated alongside her ABC's "The View" co-hosts, Star Jones Reynolds, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and executive producer Barbara Walters are numbered.

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Three are given executive credit, two are listed as co-producers and the rest get straight producer credits.

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Kathleen Kennedy, currently co-chairman of Lucasfilm, will become president of the firm and will be the executive producer on the new Star Wars films.

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