Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show Page #2
and see if people like it.
We feel the same way
about this season.
This season,
people are still trying to find it.
If you have to remember only
one thing, it's four words.
Quality scripts on time.
If you don't have quality scripts,
then what's the point
of doing any of this?
But if quality scripts
don't come on time,
you're gonna be off the air.
If your script is late,
it's not enough
to simply say, well, it's good.
I don't care if it's
the fourth day of prep.
You got 180 people that are
trying to do their job,
and you've just made their job
so much more difficult.
You've made your budget soar
and when push comes to shove,
when the network and the studio
look at the hot costs
and look at what the show has done,
they'll say, either we wanna be
in business with that person
again or we don't.
Nothing will get you out of it
quicker than arrogance,
ignorance and being, uh,
over budget and behind schedule.
You know,
studios tend not to like that.
a renaissance going on in TV.
I think it's a combination of
so much of feature writing
has gone downhill,
and the middle class of feature writing
has disappeared.
So, I think a lot of people
who really felt frustrated,
come to TV and go, "Oh, my god,
who gave us all this freedom?"
It might be less money but, wow,
I'm gonna tell them.
As difficult and as time
consuming and as stressful
as it can be, I mean,
creatively to be able to, you know,
have the control over it that I do,
uh, is, is such a rare thing.
You know, there are a lot of people
who are great writers
who really don't necessarily
enjoy the process.
And I really do.
I love the first draft
as much as I love the rewrites.
The idea of
really having those characters
come alive in my head
and hearing the words is just...
it's, it's the rush for me.
you're making an episode
is for it to be the best episode
that you've ever made.
But the reality of the situation is,
we're writing a script every ten days.
And, you know, we began to
realize like, every episode
is not gonna be a home run.
And we started looking
at the seasons as a whole,
as opposed to a sort of episode
by episode analysis.
But at the end of the day,
the legacy of the show is gonna be,
there's six seasons up on a shelf
and you can watch 'em
one after the other.
So the bad episodes are gonna
come out in the wash,
and the good episodes are also
gonna come out in the wash.
All that's gonna matter is, you know,
what are the peaks and valleys
of the storytelling as a whole?
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