How Writers both Won and Lost During Coronavirus

I still have some potential posts to write regarding the pandemic and how it affected TV. It arguably still is affecting TV and will for quite some time. That goes behind just the usual pop culture references it will now have in some shows for quite a while. But there is one thing that I might want most from all of the changes brought by the pandemic. And that would be all of the unmade episodes of TV that happened as a result of it.

While plenty of shows were able to start their next season doing the episodes that were going to be part of the previous season, numerous shows had episode orders cut with these episodes never being made as a result. Whether or not they were worked into future episodes that were made in the shows that had continued is largely unknown. That’s why a book of these unmade episodes would be nice. These are not the only unmade episodes in television history. Indeed, it is far more common than you might think for any show that airs to have episodes not made of it.

It may seem, then, that they only lost during coronavirus. So how did they win? They win the same way that the 95% of writers who sell a script that is never made into a movie win. They got paid for it. They get money for material that is never made and thus won in a sense with all of these unproduced scripts that were written and given money for even if they never got made into the episodes they were going to be or supposed to be in the end.

Of course, what I have no idea is how much of this was turned into episodes that were newly made. They could have and probably did work the material into what was made in the end, leaving out what they no longer could use or needed to use. Like I said, I hope that all of these unproduced episodes could be put in a book that is sold to people. It would be a nice thing for all of the hard work that the writers put into for episodes that were never made.