![]() (This also feels like a good spot to mention Lisa Muse Bryant and Peter Murrieta, both of whom are also executive producers on “Primo” and who spent the entire summer of 2022 with me shooting in New Mexico. It was, as David described it, showrunner training camp: mentorship and guidance and lessons at every step. On and on and on, over and over and over, more and more and more, the advice and assistance and tutelage went. Here’s how you edit the stuff once you’ve shot it. Here’s how you set the tone for the show. Here’s how you choose the right actors for the roles. Here’s how you talk to the studio and network. Here’s how you set and manage the budget of a show. ![]() Here’s how you write a season of television. There was never a moment where it felt like I didn’t have someone I could steady myself up against whenever my legs would get wobbly underneath me, which, let me tell you, was all the f- time. The four of us interviewed writers together we talked to directors together we watched auditions together we hired the production crew together. Mike, David and Morgan were always on the Zooms, and at the in-person meetings, and on the text message exchanges, email chains and phone calls. He was always there, during every phase, from the very first part - a character document I wrote that roughly outlined who each of the characters on “Primo” were before we’d even pitched the show - to the very last part - the final color corrections for the season finale roughly two years later. ![]() (In addition to David, there’s also the very talented Morgan Sackett, another executive producer on the show, who specializes in all of the behind-the-scenes stuff that needs to happen for a TV show to exist, like budgeting and scheduling and personnel).įrom the day we began developing “Primo,” Mike took on the role of mentor. And all of those pieces were put in place and overseen by Mike and his team. The quality of the show is owed to the cast, and to the producers, and to the production crew, and to the postproduction crew, and to the directors, and to the writers and everyone else who lent their insight and talent to it. I also don’t mind telling you: Very little of it had anything to do with me. I don’t mind telling you: I think it is smart and warm and unexpected and funny and Funny and FUNNY. ![]() I am extremely proud of “Primo.” I love it a great, great deal. In an effort to increase the pressure on studios to come to an agreement with the Writers Guild of America, some showrunners have chosen to stop publicity work for their series. He is also, if you can even believe this, an executive producer on “Primo,” which is a TV show I created that will air its first season - all eight episodes - on Amazon Freevee on May 19.Ĭompany Town As the writers’ strike lingers, TV showrunners are opting out of publicity for their work He is, in my estimation, the greatest TV comedy showrunner of this century. The tightest of summaries: He was a writer and producer on “Saturday Night Live.” He was a writer and producer on “The Office.” He co-created “Parks and Recreation.” He co-created “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.” And he created “ The Good Place.” That’s, of course, not everything he’s done during his 25 or so years working in television, but it’s enough for you to understand the point I’m trying to make here, which is: His work is of the highest possible pedigree, and his professional gravity is of the highest possible pull. Mike has worked on and created some of the best comedies that have ever been on television. I met him the same way pretty much everything in my short career in Hollywood thus far has come to me - via a co-sign from Mike Schur. That’s what David Miner said to me after we found out that a TV show we’d been developing for some time had officially received a season order.ĭavid is a very talented manager and television producer. “We’re going to put you through showrunner training camp.”
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