Vice: "Televison Is In a Showrunning Crisis"

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But the hunger for content brought on by the explosion of streaming has stretched the old, ad hoc training system to its breaking point. There simply are not enough experienced showrunners to head all the shows being made. Moreover, shorter episode orders and script writing for a whole season finishing before production has begun has robbed new writers of concrete experience they would have gotten even a few years ago. When those writers go on to pitch their shows, there’s a chance they’ve never seen one of their scripts actually get filmed. And, again, there aren’t enough experienced showrunners to pair with them.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epxeze/television-is-in-a-showrunning-crisis

I imagine this is becoming an issue for a lot of other production roles in television, where the sheer mass of content is simply too big for the available pool of talent in various positions.

So what you're saying is...

There's a chance my gritty reboot of Octonauts can happen!?! Yes!

I don't have any substance comment at this time, but wanted to say that was a GREAT article, Richard. Thanks for sharing it.

I have a friend who works in film/TV production down in Louisiana and this completely lines up with what he's been telling me for awhile: there are too many projects and not enough workers for them. As a result, people who have next to no experience on even a production assistant level are getting rapidly promoted from project to project to meet hiring demands. Which in turn leads to a lot of previously-avoidable production messes.