The second
season of Judging Amy is in the
can. We finished our order of twenty-two episodes. We are on hiatus right now and the writers will return to work on June 4th to
start on season three. As of that
time, I will be a Consulting Producer for the new season and, God willing, the
one that follows. We have outlined the first seven episodes in broad
strokes and will begin the season by filling in the details. After those
seven are fleshed out, writers will retire to their offices to write those
episodes. Our season premiere script will begin to prep on July 3rd and
we'll start shooting a week after that. We have a new lead-in (The
Guardian) and competition from a new Bochco show, so we are not going to
be coasting. But we trust that our hard work will pay off in another
successful season.
Any
minute now I'm going to write about the Judging Amy writing staff.
Even though I am, admittedly, not objective, I think we have the best
staff on network television. (I'd have to put an asterisk by The
Sopranos if I included cable. David Chase is a genius and he
has the best staff on television.) Here are the people I will soon
write about: Executive
Producer and Creator: Barbara Hall (Credits: Chicago
Hope -- Executive Producer; Northern Exposure -- Executive Producer;
I'll Fly Away -- Co-Executive Producer; Moonlighting -- Supervising
Producer) Co-Executive
Producer: Hart Hanson (Credits: Cupid -- Producer;
Snoops -- Executive Producer; many credits and awards in Canadian
television) Consulting
Producer: Joseph Dougherty (Credits: Many, most notably
writer/producer for Thirtysomething, for which he won an Emmy and
created the brilliant character Miles Drintel.) Executive
Story Editor: Lyla Oliver Executive
Story Editor: Randall Caldwell Non-writing
but equally brilliant Executive Producer: Joseph Stern New
in-house Director/Producer: Daniel Sakheim Note:
We just lost last season's Co-Executive Producers Nicole Yorkin and Dawn
Prestwich because they have created a new show called The Education of
Max Bickford, which will air this fall on CBS on Sunday nights at 8
p.m., right after "60 Minutes."
The series
is about a college history
professor and stars Oscar winners Richard Dreyfuss and Marcia Gay
Harden. We will miss Dawn and Nicole tremendously at Judging Amy --
especially at lunch -- but we're very proud of them and wish them great
success! Please watch their show! back
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