Dripping with Smarts

Before you can be in production on a television show you must first go through something called "pre-production," which is, for my money, the most fun part of the whole process. Pre-production is all drumroll, all hypotheticals. You're thinking up stories and putting together a production staff and picking out dry-erase board sizes and in general doing the kind of fun preparation work that everybody likes to do, without any of the grueling this-is-really-happening-now work you have to do in production...