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TV writers, who have seen their livelihood threatened by the ascent of unscripted shows, are getting their own reality series. At TCA today, Sundance Channel announced the greenlight of non-fiction series The Writers’ Room. The six-episode half-hour series, done in partnership with Entertainment Weekly, will feature the writers of comedy and drama series in a roundtable talk show format discussing “their greatest choices, toughest decisions and biggest mistakes.” Produced by RelativityREAL, The Writers’ Room is slated to premiere during the second half of 2013.
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Diane Haithman contributed to this report.
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This series won’t get cancelled. It will just disappear up its own ass.
Hosted by Steve Levitan?
I work in a writers room — you’d have to be an idiot to wanna watch that.
So basically, this is Hollywood giving itself another handjob…yet again.
Is it possible to get negative ratings? I don’t even think the writers’ spouses and families are tuning in to watch that show.
You’ve used this graphic before when reporting on TV writers. I pointed out your error then, and now am pained to see that I must do so yet again. So here goes: Please, in the name of all that is holy about education, and the value and power of language, unless there is one and only one writer on that staff — FIX IT!!!
No need to fix it I am the only writer who works in that room. I am all alone all the time. I write the show by myself. I don’t need a dozen other writers wasting their time and my time. Sincerely,
Mel Brooks created an entire stage play on this. Doesn’t that say anything?
That would be NEIL SIMON, not Mel Brooks.
Both sundance and ifc are competing to figure out how to create the cheapest possible shows.
What about my idea for a show about TV writers who work on a show about TV writers who write a TV show?
Don’t underestimate the fanboy audience on this one
Is this where “the sausage” gets made ?
This will be the first show to get an entire cable network cancelled.
For the love of heaven, please fix the apostrophe in that graphic.
I look forward to Bill Prady repeatedly “proving” to us how “funny ” he is.
Already covered in what I think is the best book on the topic.
http://www.tvwritersroom.com
Anybody remember The Dick Vandyke Show? Scripted comedy that featured writers as major characters. A spin-off with Rosé Marie or Maury would not have made it. Sausage tastes great but who wants to see it made? Writers room is like sausage. I will pass.
I can see the promos now.
“Tune in to find out which newbee staff writer is dumb enough to show up on time! Learn the shocking truth when the diversity writer admits that he is only 1/20 Choctaw. Which female writer will win the “texts the most during work” award?! Guess which EP is drunk before lunch! Watch in horror as elderly writers pitch George Bush jokes! Learn what “Who Jackie?” means!”
Sure, if you’re in the industry this probably won’t be very thrilling, but I’ll bet LOTS of film and TV students will watch. They’d be crazy not to.
There’s no way any network is going to let these folks talk about the behind the scenes while their respective series are still on the air — which means we’ll get to hear all the behind the scenes who-gives-a-shit on shows that have been off the air for five years. Next!
i hope this shows the drama of a showrunner firing a PA for not getting enough of the bagels he liked. Because that’s really all you need to know about a “writers room”.
ALso, 10 guys watching youtube.