Two weeks into my new job as a story editor on the TV show The Bridge (premiering July 9th on CBS at 10:00 pm), one of the more experienced writers said, "Writing TV is like writing Haiku, you have to fit everything into the structure," and I thought, yeah, that's right, people don't complain that Haiku is too formulaic.



Then he said you could also use dirty limericks as the example, but that's not as classy.



The writers' room is a very funny place and a fun place… Continue