[CharlieDontSurf]

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Even cheesy sitcoms aren't easy to write.

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this I agree with.
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But there is also a lot more to getting a job as a TV scribe than simply being a good writer.

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This couldn't be more wrong.
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I'll concede that there's a craft to writing for television, and honing that skill is difficult, requires a lot of work, and is something most people, or writers outside the system, don't have or even understand.

But that doesn't mean tv writers are good writers, most aren't. The writing on most tv shows, the vast majority in fact, is unoriginal, cliche, boring, repetitive, stupid, unfunny, superficial and facile; the people who write it are not good writers.

Again, they may have a particular skill for their field and have jobs which are not easy, but that doesn't make them good writers, not even close.

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The show you write for has nothing to do with your ability as a writer. Poor writers end up writing and creating good shows and great writers end up working on crappy shows. TV is not a medium where usually what you write is simply put on the screen no matter how brilliant...its ripped apart over and over again until it makes it on screen

Here are some past credits of the SOPRANOS staff

The Magician
2 Stupid Dogs
Batman (the animated series)
Cover Me
Swat Kats
Hack
The In-Laws
Baby Blues
American Gothic
DiResti
The New Flipper
The Naked Truth
Living in Captivity
Sister Sister
The Secret Squirrel Show.


If you can get a job on a tv show your probably a good writer and better than a large majority of America.

Whether your also good at writing short stories, novels, articles in Time magazine is meaningless.


The argument that there are tons of brilliant tv writers who simply will never break in because they don't want to move to LA, get a agent, and go thru the process is [censored] retarded because you have to write for tv and work on a tv staff to be a great tv writer. Lots of people write one or two amazing TV specs...most get hired onto a show...a lot are out of work a couple of years later.

Like I said..there is a lot more to being a succesful tv writer than simply good writing.