Most scripted streaming shows have fewer writers than those on broadcast, which can limit jobs available to those starting in the industry
. The sale provoked plenty of dismay from fans worried about the future of their favorite shows. But as a working television writer for the last 20 years, I was alarmed for a completely different reason.
Here’s how the employment math works. A broadcast show with a full 18-to-23 episode season order typically has a staff of eight to 12 working writers, from staff writer up to executive producer. Additionally, a show’s assistants and script coordinators often get assigned a freelance script or story, which serves as a sort of audition for a future staff writer job.
Many of the most acclaimed writers and showrunners of the “golden age of television” cut their teeth in broadcast TV. One of the early jobs of David Chase, creator of “The Sopranos,” was writing on “The Rockford Files,” and before “Lost” and “Watchmen” came about, Damon Lindelof wrote for the Don Johnson cop show “Nash Bridges.”What will happen if popular DC superhero shows migrate from the CW to Warner Bros. Discovery’s own streaming service? For one, a lot of writing jobs will go away.
This means that writers growing up in the new system are getting senior positions often having written only a handful of episodes — without ever having set foot on a set, talked to actors and directors or dealt with a budget breakdown.
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