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On the TV-Day forum, panellists for “The Collective Brain: The Writer’s Room” gave insights into the career of writer for television series and features:

  • Mediator Kellie Ann Benz (Canada), screenwriter for shorts, film industry trade magazines (Canadian Screenwriter, EQ, Actors Equity magazine)
  • Aaron Zelman (USA), Law & Order, The Killing
  • James Taylor Phillips (Canada), The Guard, Artic Air

What is the Writer’s Room?

The writer’s room is the collective brain of a TV show. In a sitcom, writers develop and tweak the jokes and the story. In episodic, they come up with ideas that are broken into acts and scenes before one writer turns the story into an outline, and then a script.

JAMES: For example, in The Guard, three people created 13 episodes. This meant no day off for three months. Canadian writers often do the casting, producing and more.