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    Rob long tells us what the three biggest mistakes television producers make are. But, as usual, it's a metaphor...

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    By Rob Long • Nov 5, 2011 • 3m Listen

    Having a job, someone told me recently, is the new rich. Which is sort of true, I guess, especially in the television business. Though to be honest, if you go by the credits on any given show, it seems like there are loads of people working. Hard to believe there's any unemployment at all, frankly, when you count up the producers and co-executive producers and executive producers all listed at the start of the show....

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