Why David Cameron set Tina Fey a secret mission to change British TV
Fey rejected the request, however, explaining that US writers were, in fact, jealous of the less-is-more British approach.
Each writer will generally get to pen their own episode as part of the overall narrative arc. But, according to scriptwriter Gareth McLean, the showrunner always has the chance to"overwrite to add a consistency of tone".Phoebe Waller-Bridge's hit Fleabag isn't expected to return for a third season "In the early days of The Thick of It, we were making episodes for £80,000, but for the early episodes of Veep, we were looking at $3m an episode,"Less is more?
"In the case of Fleabag it was very much a case of, 'I've got a story to tell, I can tell it really clearly in the way I want to tell it.'" Even long-running shows like Only Fools and Horses and Blackadder can't keep up with most hit US shows. Tina Fey's 30 Rock lasted for 138 episodes over seven seasons.
While US shows can be churned out quickly, she says"super-long US shows such as Supernatural can become generally disjointed", particularly in the glare of union-led writers' strikes.
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