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There are as many television writers who work regularly as there are professional NBA players at any given time - and, by that metric, we are all breathing rarefied air - but the process by which television shows are made and selected is by no means some mystical divination by which the special artistry of very special snowflakes is empowered that it may elevate the art form as a whole.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "d161d442-ee06-405d-aedc-176efb38b936", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.195, "w": 0.77, "x": 0.118, "y": 0.287 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "Beyond that, who cares if the writers are made to sleep in cots in their offices and only go home for showers because the showrunner can't decide what story they want to tell and has them rewriting scenes that shoot the next day while they create story for an episode that is already in prep and starts filming the day after but doesn't have a script yet? 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