Why do some seasons of a series change directors for each episode?

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I’ve found this aspect confusing trying to rationalise how a show can have a consistent theme to tell a story whilst having many different directors throughout a season, but it seems to be quite common practice while filming.

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A TV show or a movie goes through several group of people, most of them only work on the project for a period of time. You have pre-production where you have the writer, casting, scouting locations, preparing any sets and costume, etc. Then you have the actual filming, and now you will have actors, cameraman, electrician, etc. Finally you have post production where you will have editor, music added, etc.

But even if the product (tv show or movie) go through different group of people, you need a unified vision for it, someone in charge from throughout the whole project to keep a sense of direction. This is where the director come in.

So the director work with the pre-production group, then with the production group, then the post-production group. In a movie, after a group is finished, they start working on other projects while work continue on the movie by other people.

During a TV show they need to have a chain. So for example while episode 1 is in post-production with Director A, episode 2 is in filming with Director B, and episode 1 is in pre-production with Director C. Then when the post production is done on episode 1, Director A will start pre-production on episode 4.

That’s not exactly how it work, depending on the TV show some phase can be longer or shorter, some work also can required less work as the show progress so some phase can be shorter and longer. So that’s why the number of director will vary throughout the show and not be a simply 3 people rotation. Also, sometime episode might not be done in order.

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