History Main / LoadsAndLoadsOfWriters

* Television sitcoms in the USA seem fond of having lots of writers.
* BritishBrevity in sitcoms is quite often dictated by the fact only one or at most two people write the scripts. Very few British TV comedies are written by committees in the American style.
* {{Soap Opera}}s are known for having a half-dozen writers credited for a single 22 minute episode.

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* ''Series/SesameStreet''

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* ''Webcomic/{{Nebula}}'' is an unusual example of a webcomic fitting this trope-- the comic is made by seven people in an art collective. Five of them (Steven, Mango, Windy, Toc, and Rook) are the artists and two (James and Haik) are the writers.
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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

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* Television sitcoms in the USA seem fond of having a stable of writers. [[note]] BritishBrevity in sitcoms is quite often dictated by the fact only one or at most two people write the scripts. Very few British TV comedies are written by committee in the American style.[[/note]]
** {{Soap Opera}}s are known for having a half-dozen writers credited for a single 22 minute episode.
* Almost every Hollywood film goes through a serialized form of this. The original writers will do rewrites on a script, then be fired and replaced by writers who will do their own rewrites, then ''those'' writers will be fired for some executive's chosen writer to do more rewrites, then the original writers might be hired back to do another rewrite to fix everything that got broken in the last dozen drafts, ''and that's before shooting starts''. When this goes well you get a quality (or at least profitable) film, and all the writers get to engage in [[DuelToTheDeath arbitration for the "Written By" credit]] (and the pile of cash that comes with it). When this goes poorly you get DevelopmentHell.
* Creator/MichaelChabon's ''Literature/TheAmazingAdventuresOfKavalierAndClay'' used this InUniverse when they pulled an all-weekender to prepare the first issue of ''Amazing Midget Radio Comics''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
* ''Series/SesameStreet''
* ''Literature/The39Clues''

* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** By the time the revived series reached its sixth season, Creator/StevenMoffat was the only man who'd written at least one episode every season. He wrote six or seven of them per thirteen-episode season at best, and he was the head writer at the time. Ultimately, he managed at least one episode for ten consecutive seasons.
*** The record in the revival is series 10 with a total of ''nine'' writers: Steven Moffat, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Sarah Dollard, Mike Bartlett, Creator/MarkGatiss, Peter Harness, Toby Whithouse, Rona Munro and Jamie Mathieson. The Moff is the only one who wrote more than one episode (four and a half, co-writing one episode with Harness).
** The classic series fit this profile even more. Since with a few exceptions the producers didn't write scripts, a wide variety of staffers and freelancers did the writing. There were some notable recurring writers like Creator/RobertHolmes and Creator/TerranceDicks.
* ''Oh! Calcutta!'' had sketches written by (among others) Music/JohnLennon and Creator/SamuelBeckett.
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' was written by basically everybody working on it. Mike Nelson was referred to as Head Writer, which in practice meant he put together everyone's quips into a single script.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''
* The ComicBook/{{Brand New Day}} era of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' comics featured a large group of writers dubbed the "Spider-Man Brain Trust."
* ''Webcomic/{{Nebula}}'' is an unusual example of a webcomic fitting this trope-- the comic is made by seven people in an art collective. Five of them (Steven, Mango, Windy, Toc, and Rook) are the artists and two (James and Haik) are the writers.

* ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'' was outlined by Lee Minoff, then after two scripts were rejected, the screenplay was assigned to Jack Mendelsohn. It then got turned over to Erich Segal for some "punching up." Designer Heinz Edelmann would tell that the screenplay was the collaboration of some twenty writers with poet Roger [=McGough=] furnishing some of the Beatles' dialogue. Al Brodax, the producer, billed himself as a screenplay writer because he could. Animated films don't fall under the same jurisdiction as live action films, so producers can put whoever they want in the credits.

** By the time the revived series reached its sixth season, Creator/StevenMoffat was the only man who'd written at least one episode every season. He wrote six or seven of them per thirteen-episode season at best, and he was the head writer.

* ForumRoleplays tend to have this because there are LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters and each one needs someone to play them.

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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', although that doesn't stop people from [[ScapegoatCreator blaming]] Creator/SethMacFarlane for everything that they find wrong with the show.

* ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'' was outlined by Lee Minoff, then after two scripts were rejected, the screenplay was assigned to Jack Mendelsohn. It then got turned over to Erich Segal for some "punching up." Designer Heinz Edelmann would tell that the screenplay was the collaboration of some twenty writers with poet Roger [=McGough=] furnishing some of the Beatles' dialogue.

* ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'' was outlined by Lee Minoff, then after two scripts were rejected, the screenplay was assigned to Jack Mendelsohn. It then got turned over to Erich Segal for some "punching up." Designer Heinz Edelmann would tell that the screenplay was the collaboration to twenty writers with poet Roger [=McGough=] furnishing some of the Beatles'dialogue.

* ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'' was outlined by Lee Minoff, then after two scripts were rejected, the screenplay was assigned to Jack Mendelssohn. It then got turned over to Erich Segal for some "punching up." Designer Heinz Edelmann would tell that the screenplay was the collaboration to twenty writers with poet Roger [=McGough=] furnishing some of the Beatles'dialogue.

*** Series 10 had a total of ''nine'' writers: Steven Moffat, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Sarah Dollard, Mike Bartlett, Creator/MarkGatiss, Peter Harness, Toby Whithouse, Rona Munro and Jamie Mathieson. The Moff is the only one who wrote more than one episode (four and a half, co-writing one episode with Harness). This is, obviously, a record for the revival.

* DC Comics often does a weekly strip that is written by a variety of authors but is coordinated by a single one.

** The revived series is in its sixth season, and Creator/StevenMoffat is the only man who's written at least one episode every season. He at best writes six or seven of them per thirteen-episode season, and he's the head writer.
*** Series 10 looks to have a total of ''nine'' writers: Steven Moffat, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Sarah Dollard, Mike Bartlett, Creator/MarkGatiss, Peter Harness, Toby Whithouse, Rona Munro and one more, currently unidentified, person. The Moff is the only one writing more than one episode. This is, obviously, a record.
** The classic series fit this profile even more. Since with a few exceptions the producers didn't write scripts, a wide variety of staffers and freelancers did the writing. There were some notable recurring writers like Robert Holmes and Terrence Dicks.

** The New 52's Superman suffers this, causing it to fall far lower than the character deserves.

Creating works of media and fiction is anything but easy. From sustaining plot development to proper trope usage (and avoidance), it's no wonder why the whole field in general is perceived to be an ongoing minefield. But every once in a while, a concept comes along that is much too big for one or two people to handle on their own, particularly a soon-to-be LongRunner. At this point, the only plausible solution is to hire a group of writers to help you out with it, since the main creator's own writing isn't always going to be up to the expectations of the viewers and fans. Since literature, manga, and web comics are almost always fully written by one or two people, don't expect any examples of this to exist from those mediums (though see RoundRobin).

** The revived series is on its sixth season, and Creator/StevenMoffat is the only man who's written at least one episode every season. He at best writes six or seven of them per thirteen-episode season, and he's the head writer.

* WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons
* Series/SesameStreet
* The39Clues

* ''Series/DoctorWho''.

* The ComicBook/{{Brand New Day}} era of ''ComicBook/{{Spider-Man}}'' comics featured a large group of writers dubbed the "Spider-Man Brain Trust."