…I asked chatGPT to tell me about getting up in the morning.
Gosh! It sounds like a production line!
LOL. Yes. You said: “I look back at some of the great TV produced and see no correlation between a mandated minimum numbers of writers and how good or popular something is.” I’ll ask you the question again: when you looked back, what shows were you thinking about that had mandated minimum number of writers?
You didn’t say “to the best of my knowledge, it was never a thing.” I quoted what you said. I stand by my response.
But the studios aren’t hiring the extra resources!
That’s the entire point!
For decades, writers rooms were staffed in the same way. Then the studios started to slash the numbers in the room. This impacted both the writing process and the writers in a number of different ways that I’ve patiently explained to you over and over again. The WGA thinks that the way to address this is to mandate the process that used to be standard-operating-procedure. So the minimums are on the table. They are up for negotiation. Its now in the AMPTP’s court.
Well you do if the studios aren’t giving you enough staff in order to be able to do the job.
:: surprised face ::
This isn’t an argument against anything I said. The WGA are well aware of the existence of this thing called a “deadline.” It’s a basic part of doing the job. Its the showrunners responsibility to manage the room, to prevent their writers from being exploited or being overworked.
And that starts with having enough writers in the room to cope with the workload. You can’t do the job if you don’t have the staff.
What guidelines do you suggest? And why wouldn’t you both have these guidelines and have mandatory minimum staffing? Because, as I’ve told you over and over and over again, there are multiple reasons why minimums are on the table. Addressing just one of those reasons doesn’t mean the others top magically existing.