Darci Interviews TV Writers

I thought I'd wrap up the year by posting two blogs featuring all the shows in their entirety (that I can remember anyways). This list of the 24 hour shows that I watched - dramas, dramedies, thrillers - from both 2021, and I also included older shows that I watched too - because, well, what is time these days? In a year of uncertainty and not going out as much as I usually do, I turned to old friends that I often turn to when I need a laugh, or just an escape, and I created new friends - fell in love with new worlds. I love binge watching TV series' and getting lost in other worlds, getting to know characters as they make stupid decisions, discover who they are, find love, fall out of love. I always end up getting so sucked into the worlds that when I finish a series, I always feel a sense of sadness feel like I am leaving my friends behind. I love television and getting to life a thousand lives vicariously through these complex, living, breathing characters that feel like so

  When I interviewed Michael, I chatted with him on the phone for an hour. He spent a lot of time reminiscing about his days in TV. I thought the really interesting and fun things he said were unrelated to the interview, so I wanted to share the rest of our conversation unfiltered on this last Monday of 2021! If you enjoy classic sitcoms as much as me, I think you'll enjoy reading this! Darci: I'm curious what made you want to write for theater now after working in TV for so long? Michael: Well, that's the exact reason. Because I've worked in TV for so long, that there isn't anything that I can think of that I haven't done in TV. I mean, I've worked for sitcoms, and I produced Sesame Street for 10 years. And I mean, and I've worked on pilots, and I've done everything. And of course, the classes that I taught at BU [Boston University] were about television script writing. So I think I've had my fill of television. I'd rather read a book at nig