‘Abbott Elementary’ Creator Quinta Brunson Talks WGA Strike’s Impact On Season 3’s Creative, Reuniting With Studio Execs & How TikTok Is Ruining Art
deadline.com“How do we justify losing half a season, half a year?” This was one of the questions asked by Quinta Brunson as she headed back into the writers room for Abbott Elementary Season 3, following the end of the WGA strike.
The puzzle she’s had to confront is how to address a substantial time jump in the context of a mockumentary intricately connected to the yearly calendar of an elementary school. “Our season will still be on the school calendar. [But] last year, we started airing in September, when school started.
We’re not doing that this year,” said the ABC/Warner Bros. TV sitcom’s creator, co-showrunner, executive producer, writer and star. “It’s not like coming back to a family show where you can pop in on that family on any sitcom-y thing.
It’s really like, what’s going on in the school?” With the WGA strike just recently in the rearview mirror, the SAG-AFTRA strike still to be resolved, and the rush to create a new season of television before her, Brunson chooses to embrace “the bright side” for her show in the challenge before her — the “little bit of creativity” that came from being forced to make different choices in her storytelling.
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