ABSTRACT
The one constant about television is that television is constantly changing. The way the business operates today won’t be precisely how it works tomorrow.
Understanding what drives television as an industry can be almost as important to your career as writing a solid script. In the same way insurance salesmen stand around the water cooler talking about new state regulations, as a writer you must be in the know about the entertainment industry. You must possess a wealth of knowledge of where television has been in the past, where it stands today, and perhaps most significantly where it is headed in the future. On any given day, topics like what shows are hot, what shows are not, and who the show runners are and where they came from (as in what shows they used to run) must roll off your tongue like a second language.
