Why some TV Series have different directors for each episode instead of just one for the entire series? Isn’t it just one screenplay?
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You need at least three directors. One is preparing to shoot the episode that is going to shoot next week; costumes, sets, script changes, camera setup, all the prep work where the director is the decider.
One is shooting this week’s episode that they prepped last week. Shoots can go six or seven days, and long nights.
The last one is editing the episode they shot last week. Next week they prep a new episode.
That’s old-school television production. For shows that shoot a whole season at once for streaming, things can be a lot more chaotic and less structured (or just structured differently). They’ll shoot in blocks, they’ll shoot out of order, a director might shoot parts of multiple episodes in a week, they might do all the prep ahead of shooting anything. Shooting an episode might take a lot more than a week. If you look at Season 2 of the Bear, the creator, Christopher Storer, shot the majority of the 10 episodes, at least on paper. Who shot what and when and in what order, we don’t know unless they tell us.
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