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The idea of trying to create anything of value with a room of 20 trying to stick their oars in baffles me. Not to mention being forced to add dead weight to a t
by whywhywhywhy 3y ago
The idea of trying to create anything of value with a room of 20 trying to stick their oars in baffles me. Not to mention being forced to add dead weight to a team to get the number up if you already have a core talented team delivering.
- saalweachter 3y agoWhile every show may not need 20 writers on staff, it's not an unusual number: https://www.vulture.com/article/late-night-writers-guide.html https://www.vulture.com/article/late-night-writers-guide.htm... In practice they'll be breaking into smaller working groups to develop individual episodes or segments of a show, so it won't actually be 20 people sitting around a table constantly.
- 27dresses 3y agoWGA never asked for 20 person writers rooms — no idea where this number is coming from. WGA’s initial proposal in May was: “1 writer per episode up to 6 episodes, then 1 additional writer required for each 2 episodes after 6 up to a max. of 12 writers”