Why Gilmore Girls goes without its parents
TV Guide gets the scoop from the creators of THE GILMORE GIRLS as to their departure from the show. I’ll stop giving them grief on this now, because I am sympathetic to their reasons for leaving.
They mention, first, that they were tired of working year-to-year, and that they thought they had earned the chance to plan two years out at once. OK, I can understand that, but it’s still not worth passing $5 million over for.
On the other hand, this part of the interview is perfectly understandable:
TV Guide Community: Team Palladino: The Interview …
Dan: For the six years, we’ve been working seven days a week, ’cause we knew every aspect of the show. We’d break every story, we’d edit, this last year we directed seven between ourselves, we have written 90-something scripts.
Amy: We also take a pass at all scripts that go out and by the time our season ends, by the time I’m done editing and by the time I’m done with sound mixes and everything like that, it’s mid-May. We start back June 1. We work through every holiday… Christmas, Thanksgiving. It’s been quite a load.
Dan: So, having done that for six years, we really wanted to expand our personnel base. We wanted more writers, more bodies in that writers’ room, we wanted a director on staff, which I think every other hourlong show has, except ours. Not having that director on staff means Amy and I have to be down on stage supervising other directors, which leads to the seven-days-a-week thing. So we were needing more personnel. And we never got around to convincing people that that was absolutely necessary.
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April 25th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
After reading the interview, I completely agree with their decision though it saddens me to no end, but I think that Warner’s took them for granted and really thought they’d blink first being so close to the end of the show.
Though we won’t probably see the Palladino’s planned ending (I still hope they come back for the last episode), I think they did the right thing, keeping their integrity.
I’m glad for once it’s not about the money
P.S: Btw, I really don’t understand all the criticisms this season has been receiving, I think it’s as wonderful as ever and the events flow naturally from the characters personalities, as the Palladinos stated. But maybe it’s just me :)
April 26th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
Thanks for posting this info, it’s a nice clarification of the first stories to come out.
I guess I can’t blame them either. It stinks, but I can’t blame them.