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    “They were giving me what they thought was helpful advice, which obviously I ignored.”

    Stephanie Law has an excellent interview with writer-producer (and sometime TV Guidance commenter) Mark Farrell, showrunner of This Hour Has 22 Minutes and one of the developers of Corner Gas. He talks about the writing process, the things he looks for in a writer (on a topical show like 22 Minutes, it’s a writer who can get used to writing a lot of material that won’t get on the show) his new pilot “Dan For Mayor,” and the fact that, apparently, the CBC does not have a blacklist for writers who cross over to another network: