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writers’ room

American  
[rahyt-erz room] / ˈraɪt ərz ˈrum /

noun

  1. a room in which screenwriters collaborate to develop and write scripts for a television show or other scripted production.

  2. the writing team for a television show or other scripted production.


Example Sentences

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“And you don’t do anything just to get a laugh. We had a rule in the writers room: ‘Could this happen?’

From Los Angeles Times

The pilot was shot in Georgia, but they wanted to shoot the series in L.A., where the writers’ room is based, but it eventually landed in New York because of the financial incentives and it’s where much of the cast is located.

From Los Angeles Times

But the surest sign that the Connecticut-born New Yorker has gone West Coast native is a February posting captioned “hard at work in the writers’ room,” showing a staffer hanging up a framed poster that screams, “New York Is Over.”

From Salon

“But I would take these long walks during our lunch breaks in the writers room and, I can’t remember when exactly, but it dawned on me on one of those walks that I really like this young lady, Rhea Seehorn,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times

The romance follows an author and screenwriter thrust together in a Hollywood writers room.

From Los Angeles Times