Start, pause, resume
The button reads Start, then Pause, then Resume. End show is separate. Rehearsal is its own switch, so a run-through is not the transmission. The show caller page is the desk in detail.
For broadcast, studio and livestream
Rundown software the control room and the floor can share.
Time each segment, let the later hit times follow, and put one live rundown in front of the producer and the floor. Broadcast crews call this a rundown. Stage crews call the same sheet a run of show. Pro is £8 a month.
- Excel and CSV import
- Later times follow the lengths
- Floor follows on a link
The timing sheet
Segments, hit times and who is on them
A rundown is the road map of the show: open, interview, package, guest, break, close. Each row has a start, a duration and an end. Change a length and every later start and end moves with it. A bare number in the duration column is minutes, so 6 is six minutes and 0.5 is thirty seconds. A show can cover more than one day.
The columns are cue, start, duration, end, description, notes, who is responsible, and private notes, plus any column you add. Bring the workbook you already run. Headers such as Segment, Hit time, On air, TRT, Talent and Producer notes map themselves. Anything else can be added, mapped onto a column you have, or left out. If the clocks in the file disagree with the durations, you choose which to keep. Export back to Excel or CSV when someone still wants a file.
This is the timing rundown. Scripts, a prompter and video playout stay in the systems you already use for those jobs. Clocks run forward from the planned start plus each duration. A hard out is your call: the sheet does not count backward from one.
On air
Call the rundown, and let the floor follow
The host still sees the clock
Open the timer on a confidence monitor or a return. Nudge a minute or five, and send Wrap up or Stand by after you have previewed it. That screen is the stage timer.
Producer notes stay on the desk
The crew link follows the live rundown. Private notes stay off it, including a column you imported as Producer notes. Contacts and the studio note live in the show doc, on their own link.
Hands on the desk · Pro credits
Change a segment by voice
The voice agent takes a spoken change — move a row, set a length, add a block — and applies it as one undo step. A text box does the same. Dictate a note into a cell if you would rather say it. Format & Tidy cleans a cell and leaves the item number and the clocks alone.
Those tools spend AI credits. Pro includes 1,000,000 credits each month. The rundown, the clocks and the crew link do not need credits. If the credits run out, calling the show continues.
FAQ
Questions
Rundown software is the timed list of segments for a broadcast, a studio show or a livestream: each item, how long it runs, when it starts and ends, and who is on it. ShowDocLive ShowRun is that rundown in the browser. Change a duration and the later start and end times move. The floor can follow on a link.
No. This is the timing rundown the producer and the floor share. Scripts, a prompter and video playout stay in the systems you already use for those jobs. Clocks run forward from the planned start plus each duration. The sheet does not count backward from a hard out.
Yes. Import an .xlsx workbook or a CSV. Headers such as Segment, Hit time, On air, TRT, Talent and Producer notes map themselves. Any other column can be added, mapped onto one you already have, or ignored. You can export back to Excel or CSV. Replacing the rows keeps the crew share link.
A rundown is the broadcast name. A run of show is the name on stage and at live events. In ShowDocLive they are the same ShowRun sheet: rows, durations and clocks. The run of show page is written for stage crews.
No. Private notes, including a column imported as Producer notes, stay off the crew link. The person calling the show still sees them on the desk.
Bring the spreadsheet. Run the show from the same page.
ShowRun is in Pro, £8 a month. The crew show doc is free if you only need the book.
Start Pro — £8/month