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[shadowkat]

Kevine Levine, writer of MASH, Cheers, and Fraiser - does a great post on what actors hate in scripts. For fun see how many of these items or mistakes your favorite tv writers/tv shows have made.

http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2008/08/what-actors-hate-besides-other-actors.html

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[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Oh forgot to state...actors often write and direct for actors better than other people do. They have more respect for the profession. Writers who don't act have a notoriously LOW opinion of most actors. (Whedon didn't think much of theater actors for example...and Levine rips into them all the time. But there are exceptions - Doris Egan and Jane Espenson speak highly of actors.) Directors who haven't acted - also have notoriously low opinion - George Lucas is a perfect example.

Can't say I blame them - relying on other people to say and do what you write the way you see it in your head is really hard. Never quite works. Because they can't read your mind of course and even if they could, they'd probably like their idea better.

Working in TV sounds very frustrating. Even more frustrating than what I do for a living...which at times doesn't seem possible, but is very reassuring. Misery loving company and all that.;-)
(I'm joking, while my job is frustrating at times, I still don't mind it all that much. They probably say the same thing...there's always pluses and minuses...trick is to focus on the pluses.)