h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Feb 3/2k and after five months of sweat and struggle, the first scenes in colour are showing up- 'doesn't suck' is about all I have to say about it, though there does appear to be a dim flickering light at the end of the TV tunnel... by next year at this time, those of you with kids are going to be stepping on little plastic Lampies toys in your kids room, cute little elfish looking critters in alarmingly bright colors- its been a grim task getting this stuff on the screen, an ordeal of compromise and angst for the sake of...of what? I seem to have forgotten that part. Paycheck power, I suppose. The pleasure of putting the show in the can and walking away from it. The why of doing a TV series somehow eludes me at this point. Why do we take on jobs, projects, missions, especially the challenging, taxing, exhausting ones...? I wonder if I ever thought this would be fun? After firing over a dozen people, after having to smile and nod at stupid ideas and brutal compromises, there are two episodes on the verge of done, 24 left to go, and its a struggle to bring enough interest to work with me every day for the weekly panic of fixing scripts, revising storyboards, checking scenes, editing, typing notes and lists, meeting and talking with clients and staff and people in suits, staring into one screen or another and finding ways to make it look pretty, or funny, or charming, or just making it 'not suck'.
Thats showbiz.