When the show's in production, we work for three weeks at a time and then take a week off.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I love the sitcom schedule. It takes a week to make an episode, but we don't work on weekends. I'm usually done in time to get home for dinner with my wife and daughter.
If you're doing an hour-long show, you're working movie hours, doing a 12-15-hour day. We work three or four hours a day, and get every third or fourth week off to give the writers time to write. It's the cushiest job in Hollywood.
I've been working some really long hours for the last five or six years. Anybody who works on series television knows, and especially women because women spend probably two hours more than the guys with all their hair and makeup crap.
On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months - it's crazy. They're so slow, it's like vacation to me.
Combine that with the fact that we only had one week to get everything taken care of and to get to know one another, whereas most shows get two weeks. It looked like we would never have a chance.
It's a lot of a workload doing an hour dramatic show. It's just incredible what little time off you get.
People will burn through a show in two or three days, and then you're left feeling empty for 51 weeks.
And Seinfeld is so quick: we crank out one show a week, and the hours are very reasonable.
It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week.
We worked under a lot of pressure... three days to do an episode, sometimes two in a week, 39 episodes a year.