Showrunner Takes Break From Doomposting About Future of Industry to Hire Friends for New Writers’ Room
New show picked up for 5.5 episodes.
From a bush somewhere in LA, I can now confirm that chronically online, famed showrunner, Todd Teddington, has stopped doomposting on BlueSky and has hired friends for the writers’ room of his new show picked up by NBC Universal. Teddington confirmed the break from socials on an Instagram reel, earlier this week.
“The industry is in a really bad place,” Teddington said in the video, as his assistant handed him his coffee order for the day. “I know you all will miss my posts about how AI is destroying the industry, how smaller episode orders are destroying the industry, or how The Bear being considered for “Best Comedy” is destroying the industry, but me and the last remaining working screenwriters on Earth are going to work our butts off to guarantee that we can keep working after this season.”
Teddington then went into a long-winded rant about studio mergers, before returning focus to the writers’ room.
“I’m super serious about this break from Bluesky. Look, I’m deleting the app off my phone right now,” Teddington said, briefly hesitating to tap the ‘X’ over the butterfly icon. “The fight for the future of this industry is now in your hands. I don’t want to give up posting about the industry, I mean look at how many followers I have, but this is a sacrifice I need to make. If my well-established friends and I can deliver a stellar season of TV, that creates more work down the line for us. And then maybe some more work down the line for other friends who we weren’t able to bring in on this project.”
Comments to the reel quickly turned on Teddington and his hiring practices. Calling out the nepotism at play and a lack of lower-level writers. Teddington was quick to fire back.
“Now hold on. You can’t say I’m just hiring my friends,” Teddington said, after laughing at a well-established inside joke between those around the table. “I also hired Sammy. He has no writers’ room experience. Sure, I worked with his dad on late night TV, but that doesn’t mean anything. There are only so many shots to be given at this point. You think I’m going to waste those shots on complete strangers? I’ve got to do my part in leaving a mark on the industry and leaving it in good hands. That’s why Sammy is a good choice. Sure, he can’t write, but he knows enough people to make that not matter.”
At press time Teddington had reinstalled the BlueSky app on his phone. The bush I hid in for this story was a Nepo Shrub.
