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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6266551" data-attributes="member: 177">As I understand things, writers often have to approach the first season of the show as if it will be the only season - it needs to be mostly contained, with a beginning, a middle, and an end.They often don't learn whether they're going to get a second season until late in the process, and the terms of the second and following season are often mucked with by executives (like, &quot;Don't kill that character&quot;, &quot;change your core story in such-a-way&quot;, and so on).&nbsp; Writers are then often left scrambling to find ways to continue.Witchblade is an excellent example - the show was conceived as a simple 13-episode series, with a contained arc.&nbsp; The network came back to them and said they'd pay a lot of money to have a second season.&nbsp; BUT, the budget per episode was drastically reduced, and the main actress went into rehab.&nbsp; There's glimmerings of a good second story n there, but all the signs of difficulty in executing on that story.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6266551, member: 177"] As I understand things, writers often have to approach the first season of the show as if it will be the only season - it needs to be mostly contained, with a beginning, a middle, and an end. They often don't learn whether they're going to get a second season until late in the process, and the terms of the second and following season are often mucked with by executives (like, "Don't kill that character", "change your core story in such-a-way", and so on). Writers are then often left scrambling to find ways to continue. Witchblade is an excellent example - the show was conceived as a simple 13-episode series, with a contained arc. The network came back to them and said they'd pay a lot of money to have a second season. BUT, the budget per episode was drastically reduced, and the main actress went into rehab. There's glimmerings of a good second story n there, but all the signs of difficulty in executing on that story. [/QUOTE]

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