Jonathon Henson

Executive producer Jonathan Henson, while responsible for the pilot being picked up and developed, is widely regarded within the fandom as the man who almost ruined SOTNF.

Though Cynthia Modando's pilot episode held fairly true to the source material, Henson regarded many of the more subtle details as frivolous and slowly pushed them aside throughout the course of the first season. When ratings dropped off and fans of the original novel series expressed outrage for the changes, Henson corrected course and brought Modando on as the showrunner, beginning in season 2.