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‘Matlock’ Boss Jennie Snyder Urman Does All Her Proofreading, Notes and Edits While Walking 3+ Miles a Day
Jennie Snyder Urman may have a writers' room for "Matlock," but the most creative ideas come from her multiple walks a day.
While the CBS drama has a writers’ room, the note-taking, the character arcs and the big twists come to the showrunner on her daily walks. She’s just started the Season 2 writers’ room, so if you’re driving around the Valley in Los Angeles, there’s a chance you’ll see her walking, stacks of scripts in hand. “In LA that 30 minutes twice a day that you’re in the car commuting is direct time that you can’t be with family or you can’t be working, so my first thing is I find an office and it has to be within 1.5 miles [of my home].
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