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The Hollywood Reporter sat down with today’s top Showrunners to discuss the trails and tribulations of getting their show off the ground and running correctly!

One of the more interesting speakers, Doug Ellin, show runner for “Entourage”, described the issues he had to go through in  getting music clearance from artists, particularly Usher….

Doug Ellin: Our first season, we tried to get an Usher song and his label actually said, “Send over a $300,000 Bentley and we can talk.” I’m not even kidding! Now it’s gotten much easier. But, like Steve said, the first year was very difficult because no one knew what the show was. Now they come to me and want to break artists.

Lorre: We had trouble clearing the cha-chunk from “Law & Order.” I had to call Dick Wolf. He actually said, “That’s not my call. I’ll try.” And we got it, but it was ridiculously expensive. It was $5,000 a note, and it’s only two notes!

Wow!  It’s not a game! Something tells me Usher doesn’t know about this, and his label was tryna get a free car out of the ‘Entourage’ folks…..read the rest of the exchange between show runners from “Entourage”, “Two and a Half Men”, “Modern Family”, “Glee” and “Nurse Jackie” HERE……

If you’re in the entertainment industry, or want to be, it’s a must read!!