Focusing on his employees
Throughout the city, TV show runners said today that they were going to work through the weekend to try to finish scripts so they could be produced in the event of a strike. Wunderkind producer Greg Berlanti, whose company produces “Brothers & Sisters,” “Dirty Sexy Money” and the ABC midseason drama “Eli Stone,” said his focus was on the 950 employees in his company.
“I want to keep our crew and our actors and everybody working as long as possible to make these shows great,” he said. “If a strike happens, no one ever wants it to happen, I want the people that work for me to survive it.”
But concentrating, he said, was tough, as people were taking down pictures and behaving as if it was the end of the season instead of halftime.
“It’s been a really hard couple of weeks with the combination of trying to do more work than usual, suffering the feeling that you don’t have any control over the situation and there’s a lot of gray area on certain things and no one really has a lot of information,” he said. “It hasn’t been pleasant. And then there’s sense of the impending strike and what that can bring too. None of it is good.”
-- Maria Elena Fernandez
