![]() So, we’re going to pair you with this powerful director or producer.” It is changing fundamentally how television is made. It allows outside forces to be like, “Well, you don’t really know what you’re doing. So, when they have a show, they don’t have the experience to run it. They’ve never been in a production meeting. ![]() What’s happening now with these small orders and small rooms is you have a whole staff who has been writing, they’re moving up the ranks, they might be like co-EP level, and they’ve never been on set. What I didn’t realize until after I left Happy Endings was I had this wealth of knowledge. A lot of the people I hired on Rutherford Falls had only been in mini-rooms and didn’t have any on-set experience. As I moved up onto other shows, the staff got smaller. Through that process of doing 22 episodes, by the end of it, you knew how to produce an episode of television. ORNELAS Even though it was Caspe’s first job in TV, and it was my first job in TV, there were a slew of people who had a bunch and were excited to tell us how to do it. Why is the WGA fighting for room-size guarantees and the end of the so-called mini-room? In your thread, you noted there were 17 writers on season one of the show, seven of them staff writers including you, and that it was dubbed “America’s Next Top Staff Writer.” One of the key issues the Writers Guild is striking for is minimum room size. Sierra, your May 9 Twitter thread inspired this reunion. For the full conversation, listen to this week’s TV’s Top 5 (below). What follows is an edited version of the sprawling reunion. Joining TV’s Top 5 this week are Happy Endings creator-showrunner David Caspe ( Black Monday), showrunner Jonathan Groff ( Black-ish), showrunner Josh Bycel ( Solar Opposites), Sierra Teller Ornelas ( Rutherford Falls), Prentice Penny ( Insecure), Lon Zimmet ( Night Court), Dan Rubin ( Night Court), brothers Daniel and Matthew Libman ( Champaign, ILL), Jackie Clarke ( Blockbuster), Amy Aniobi ( Insecure), Leila Strachan ( Night Court), Hilary Winston ( Krapopolis) and Jason Berger ( The Big Show). Bob Iger Tries Diplomacy This Time On Strike: "I Am Personally Committed" to Finding a Solutionĭuring this week’s TV’s Top 5 podcast, hosts Lesley Goldberg and Daniel Fienberg reunite 14 of the Happy Endings writers to build off Ornelas’ thread and discuss, in light of the ongoing Writers Guild strike, the benefits of having a traditional writers rooms, why having writers on set is an invaluable on-the-job training ground and how mini-rooms are bad for television. Want all the latest celebrity news sent right to your inbox? Click here. It's a far cry from Penny Hartz, but we're totally down to see Wilson take on a darker role. ![]() I would love to do something like that because I'm normally on the comedy end of things. "I love dark thrillers and things like Black Mirror. And I just think female stories, especially female friendships, are so interesting and fun and funny."Īs for her dream role, Wilson revealed that she wants to do an episode of Black Mirror. If I'm not reading them, I love to write roles for other women. She said, "I think writing allows me to try to create roles for myself. In addition to Happy Endings, Wilson also opened up about her work behind the camera, where she writes episodes and movie scripts (most notably Bride Wars). She told us, "I feel like the pandemic would probably hit Penny pretty hard in the dating department." As for how Penny would navigate the pandemic, Wilson said she wouldn't handle it too well-especially since it would've taken a toll on her love life. ![]()
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