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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 162857" data-attributes="member: 27">NuDynasty seems to have people come in to direct single episodes, but I haven&#039;t paid enough attention to writer credits to see if they do the same one-off hiring to do scripts, or if they have a circle of script writers they pull from like a typical writing staff.&nbsp; The show-runners would definitely outline what they want to happen.&nbsp; There is always an issue of &quot;notes&quot; from the network, where the suits might decide they don&#039;t like the direction of some story--all TV producers suffer from such interference--which might derail the story outline for a season.&nbsp; There was also the very public departure of their second lead with very little notice, which had to have made some story projections end up in the shredder.But I tend to agree with your assessment that there does not seem to have been a strong plan (a &quot;Bible&quot;) for this season, making me wonder just what goes on in their production/writers room meetings.&nbsp; Typically the writers will expand their story ideas to fit the amount of time (episodes) they&#039;re given, but the meandering actions of the characters mid-season could not possibly have been a &quot;plan&quot;.&nbsp; I&#039;m reminded of how CBS called up the producers of Knots Landing and requested extra episodes in (their) season six.&nbsp; The producers had already mapped out a Bible for that season, but when the network asked for more, they simply expanded the story projections by adding the Verna Ellers in Shula plotline to kill a few episodes, but give the viewers a great &#039;extra&#039;.&nbsp; They would not have allowed the characters to just meander and waste time the way several NuDynasty characters did this year.Though they don&#039;t owe us any explanations, of course, it would be kind of nice if we could learn some reason why there was no rhyme or reason to some of their plot twists.&nbsp; They knew well in advance that they had 22 episodes to fill (no &quot;requests for extra episodes,&quot; but no cuts either).&nbsp; But I am so tired of producers foisting the blame on those darn focus groups, so they better have something better than that old chestnut.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 162857, member: 27"] Nu[I]Dynasty[/I] seems to have people come in to direct single episodes, but I haven't paid enough attention to writer credits to see if they do the same one-off hiring to do scripts, or if they have a circle of script writers they pull from like a typical writing staff. The show-runners would definitely outline what they want to happen. There is always an issue of "notes" from the network, where the suits might decide they don't like the direction of some story--all TV producers suffer from such interference--which might derail the story outline for a season. There was also the very public departure of their second lead with very little notice, which had to have made some story projections end up in the shredder. But I tend to agree with your assessment that there does not seem to have been a strong plan (a "Bible") for this season, making me wonder just what goes on in their production/writers room meetings. Typically the writers will expand their story ideas to fit the amount of time (episodes) they're given, but the meandering actions of the characters mid-season could not possibly have been a "plan". I'm reminded of how CBS called up the producers of [I]Knots Landing[/I] and requested extra episodes in (their) season six. The producers had already mapped out a Bible for that season, but when the network asked for more, they simply expanded the story projections by adding the Verna Ellers in Shula plotline to kill a few episodes, but give the viewers a great 'extra'. They would not have allowed the characters to just meander and waste time the way several Nu[I]Dynasty [/I]characters did this year. Though they don't owe us any explanations, of course, it would be kind of nice if we could learn some reason why there was no rhyme or reason to some of their plot twists. They knew well in advance that they had 22 episodes to fill (no "requests for extra episodes," but no cuts either). But I am so tired of producers foisting the blame on [I]those darn focus groups[/I], so they better have something better than that old chestnut. [/QUOTE]

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