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Not in this case. Writing for TV owns your life while you do it. 16-hour days to meet an episode deadline, spending the whole weekend turning around a first draft script.

If you work in a professional TV writing room, you simply don't have another job on the side. It's not an option.

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Then it's a hell of their own making.

For all those hours writers have demonstrably been worse and worse every decade.

If shows take forever to write now, it's because everything is written by committee.

Regular writers are not pulling the crazy hours that Trey Parker and Matt Stone are. And they put out episodes faster than any other show.

I think all of Hollywood is finally falling over. And it's far past time.

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