Ali Adair (@aliadair22.bsky.social)

The 50 Most Powerful TV Producers of 2025 Let’s not sugarcoat it. Writers are out of work. Production is fleeing Los Angeles. And a 13-year-old in rural Montana is probably using Sora 2 to create a new season of Wednesday right now. But for all of its many, many issues, the TV industry persists, minting breakouts every year, and many of its biggest power players are feeling a little hopeful — about longer orders, boosted interest in original ideas and maybe even loosening purse strings. “After HBO Max’s success with The Pitt, thankfully more execs see the value in TV going back to being TV and making more episodes,” says Greg Berlanti. “It’s better for the whole industry and the audience.” In THR’s annual census of the most powerful writer-producers, we polled 50-ish creators behind the biggest hits of the past year about the promising conversations they’ve had, Zoom pitch horror stories, their concerns with AI, writers room envy and the 2025 series that most impressed them — under strict instructions they couldn’t name The Pitt or Adolescence. Why not? Because we get it already. https://bit.ly/4tAXwtj