They have at least 7 producers announced so far for the first season of 8 episodes. There’s an obsession of the Hollywood Gen X nepobabies to always get as many eyes on and hands writing as possible for all content, which invariably makes a good show impossible to create.
Writer’s rooms are often so packed they often have a revolving door of people of writers each writing different episodes at the same time, no longer using smaller writing teams because the production timeline is so tight, but because there literally isn’t enough room for all these writers to be in one space. These teams are no longer just 3-4 writers out of the group, but often over a dozen people. They don’t meet to communicate with the other writers in a large group because how do you have a pitch meeting or a script review with 100 people? You can’t, so you only bring them on for maybe 2 episodes and then they leave.
The new live action Star Trek series are notorious for being pretty bad and for having more writers and producers than they have episodes. Why did Star Trek Picard need over 60 producer/writers to make 30 episodes? (many of whom had so little creative control over the final product that they don’t even get listed on the wikipedia or IMDb page) Why did Discovery have about 90 people writing 65 episodes?
You need some level of consistency on your show and a handful of writers committed to making the content consistent in its narrative tone and storytelling style. The “many hands” model neither makes the work lighter nor produces quality content, yet it remains a foregone conclusion in Hollywood production under Gen X producers.
They have at least 7 producers announced so far for the first season of 8 episodes. There’s an obsession of the Hollywood Gen X nepobabies to always get as many eyes on and hands writing as possible for all content, which invariably makes a good show impossible to create.
Writer’s rooms are often so packed they often have a revolving door of people of writers each writing different episodes at the same time, no longer using smaller writing teams because the production timeline is so tight, but because there literally isn’t enough room for all these writers to be in one space. These teams are no longer just 3-4 writers out of the group, but often over a dozen people. They don’t meet to communicate with the other writers in a large group because how do you have a pitch meeting or a script review with 100 people? You can’t, so you only bring them on for maybe 2 episodes and then they leave.
The new live action Star Trek series are notorious for being pretty bad and for having more writers and producers than they have episodes. Why did Star Trek Picard need over 60 producer/writers to make 30 episodes? (many of whom had so little creative control over the final product that they don’t even get listed on the wikipedia or IMDb page) Why did Discovery have about 90 people writing 65 episodes?
You need some level of consistency on your show and a handful of writers committed to making the content consistent in its narrative tone and storytelling style. The “many hands” model neither makes the work lighter nor produces quality content, yet it remains a foregone conclusion in Hollywood production under Gen X producers.
TL;DR: Too Many Cooks.
the bit in the redlettermedia episode where mike is counting the amount of producers in an episode of Discovery is mind blowing
Here time stamped RLM Discovery S2 review, absolutely bonkers.
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