How many producers does it take??

Here's a listing from the opening credits from "the Bookstore":

2 creators 2 executive producers 2 co-executive producers 2 supervising producers 2 co-producers 3 producers 1 teleplay 3 story writers and 1 director

18 people and they still spew crap like that. That may have been the worst episode ever.

JKlompas wrote:

Hey Crumpet, are you related to Dribble? All you pod people are very humorless and very boring.

maro

No... Why? Because it actually DOES take that many people to make an episode... maybe without that many people, the show wouldn't be a hit..

Dave wrote in message ...

I can't believe it took three writers to write such a stupid story! This was truly a "show about nothing." Set-ups ended without punch lines, and scenes just arbitrarily segued into other scenes. Aside from Jerry's dream, I grade the episode a D-.

Dave wrote:

In Drew Carey's "Dirty Jokes and Beer," Carey reveals that most people listed as producers on sitcoms are just staff writers but are called producers "probably because 'I'm a producer' gets you laid better than 'I'm a writer.'"

I've thought about how many producers there are in shows too. The Simpsons is another one like that. Producers keep the show going, they're the one having meetings with the writers, hiring new writers and directors, deciding where the show will go, etc. So you need a lot of them. And a lot of producers do write some, but give their writers credit. Jerry said he and Larry David would go over ever line of each script, but they wanted to give the writers sole credit most of the time.

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