ATTN: JMS - Your Druthers

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Subject: ATTN: JMS - Your Druthers
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s  1: Oct 20, 1996: Laura Gillenwater <tworks19 at nfi.com>
*  2: Oct 21, 1996: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)

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From: Laura Gillenwater <tworks19 at nfi.com>
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Mornin', Joe (may I call you "Joe"?) -

This may sound like a dumb question (especially now that I've started it 
with "this may sound like a dumb question") but, if you had your 
druthers, would you rather write B5 for a venue *without* commercials or 
one *with* commercials? It seems to me that one has to structure an 
episode differently in the two situations and I was wondering which 
structure you prefer. I would think that not having to worry about 
commercials would allow you greater freedom in how you divide up time 
among individual scenes, for example, but, on the other hand, the 
commercial breaks give you an opportunity to build to a suspenseful or 
dramatic moment and then leave us dangling deliciously for a few minutes 
before moving us on...

Thanks for the delightful addiction you've given me,

Laura

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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Lines: 8

Without commercials is always a preferable format for one-hour.  It's just
more intense that way.  (But for something longer, some kind of break is
good, even plays break up by acts and intermissions.)  
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 jms


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