Meanings
nounwriters' room (plural writers' rooms)
plural writers' rooms
- broadcastingThe room in which the showrunner and the writers of a television series collaborate on the plot and develop the script.
The showrunner ist the ringmaster for the writers' room—the final authority. There is some form of a whiteboard on the walls of the room, where the plots for future episodes are outlined.
2013, Bethany Rooney, Mary Lou Belli, Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing, →ISBN, page 66
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