Furious D
09-10-2003, 01:55 PM
I figured that this is a thread that deserves a spot. A place for writers to have a good gripe at the producers/execs/whatever who made your creative experience as enjoyable as a root canal without novocaine. It's better to do it here than clogging up some other forum.
Let's hear your gripes, groans, and bitching. I could easily get this started.
1. A producer offered me a job with his company, but in order to get the job I had to defraud a government jobs program to cover my salary. I backed out of committing a felony & last I heard the producer was on the shit-list of every union in the country for his colourful way of doing business.
2. A producer/star of a popular cable show called me up one night and offered me a job as a comedy writer for his show. He specifically asked for my e-mail address so he could send me the details after he got back from his two week vacation. I tried contacting him after a month, but was given the runaround by his toadies. That was four years ago.
3. While in film school I was hired to write for a sketch comedy show. At first things were looking good. The other writers & I had put together some funny material and were very confident of a sale. Then the producer had the bright idea of running every sketch through a series of focus groups. The show then morphed from a funny sketch comedy show, to a joke-free sitcom about mischievious angels. Why did this change happen? Because in Canada there was a popular series of cream cheese commercials featuring a mischievious angel. The backers fled in horror, the producer ran off to another job, and none of the writers got paid.
Can you top these little tales of terror. Let's hear your horror story.
Let's hear your gripes, groans, and bitching. I could easily get this started.
1. A producer offered me a job with his company, but in order to get the job I had to defraud a government jobs program to cover my salary. I backed out of committing a felony & last I heard the producer was on the shit-list of every union in the country for his colourful way of doing business.
2. A producer/star of a popular cable show called me up one night and offered me a job as a comedy writer for his show. He specifically asked for my e-mail address so he could send me the details after he got back from his two week vacation. I tried contacting him after a month, but was given the runaround by his toadies. That was four years ago.
3. While in film school I was hired to write for a sketch comedy show. At first things were looking good. The other writers & I had put together some funny material and were very confident of a sale. Then the producer had the bright idea of running every sketch through a series of focus groups. The show then morphed from a funny sketch comedy show, to a joke-free sitcom about mischievious angels. Why did this change happen? Because in Canada there was a popular series of cream cheese commercials featuring a mischievious angel. The backers fled in horror, the producer ran off to another job, and none of the writers got paid.
Can you top these little tales of terror. Let's hear your horror story.