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You may have read the news that Chris Albrecht, the former mastermind of HBO (until he had to step down due to his arrest in 2007), has set up his first show as an independent producer: “The Borgias,” a Franco-American co-production to be created and written by Tom Fontana (Oz, Homicide). The concept itself is plausible enough as a way of piggybacking on the success of The Tudors — pretty soon there’ll be a show about every scandalous aristocratic family — but what interests me is the question of what happens when a TV executive goes into producing.