A DAY with DOUBT by Laura Donney

OCTOBER 2016

A DAY WITH DOUBT by Laura Donney

I know what you’re thinking—“What’s Doubt, and should I love it?” “Does it matter what a day in the life of a writers’ PA looks like?” All very reasonable questions. Doubt is a brand new show (happy first season to us!) created and show run by Joan Rater and Tony Phelan (Grey’s Anatomy). It follows the legal defense team at Isaiah Roth and Associates as they represent the underdogs, the downtrodden, and of course, criminals. Here’s the catch: top lawyer Sadie Ellis (played by Katherine Heigl) starts to fall for her charismatic client Billy Brennan (Steven Pasquale), who may or may not be guilty of a brutal crime. Yes, you should love it!

Photo: Cliff Lipson/CBS ©2016 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Lipson/CBS ©2016 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. Photo: Cliff And yes, a day in the life of a PA (Me) does matter. So for your reading pleasure, below is a Pictured (L-R)Dulé Hill as Albert Cobb and Laverne Cox as Cameron Wirth of the CBS series DOUBT, scheduled to behind the scenes look at an average day with air on the CBS Television Network. Doubt.

7:00 a.m.: I wake up. If I’m lucky, the bun I slept in can pass as intentionally messy laissez- faire work place hair, and before you know it I’m in my car en route to CBS Studio Center.

7:26 a.m.: Waiting for the green arrow left turn at Ventura and Radford.

7:30 a.m.: I open up Building 3! This means a lot of lights get turned on, a dishwasher gets emptied, call sheets and white boards are updated, and lots of doors get unlocked. I always open up our Showrunners’ offices first because they’re usually first to arrive. Tony is often here before me, which makes me feel like I’m slacking but I swear I’m not.

8:00 a.m.: Time to grocery shop! It’s important to keep the kitchen fully stocked with office

Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2016 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2016 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. favorites and necessities. Pictured (L-R) Katherine Heigl as Sadie Ellis and Laverne Cox as Cameron Wirth of the CBS series DOUBT, scheduled to air on the CBS Television Network. 9:30 a.m.: Joan and Tony really encourage total office participation, so if ever I have down time, Continued on page 3 1 PRODUCTION SCHEDULE

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Design Elizabeth Gulick n31 Halloween 2 OCTOBER 2016 A DAY WITHOUT DOUBT… Continued from page 1 Congratulationsongratulations I go grab a seat in the writers’ room. It can get 3:00-4:00 p.m.: There’s so much paper floating Herman Somera, General pretty raucous with case pitches, special legal around our office, so in the afternoon I try to Accounting Clerk retired consultant visits, and writers’ enactments of read up on outlines, story docs, and drafts. after 19 years of service how they imagine a scene. I’ll update timelines, character bibles, and at CBS. most importantly (CBS back me up on this) In his retirement, Herman 11:00 a.m.: Usually I’ll have a schedule to clearances!! All of this is obviously done with is planning on getting deliver to our writer on the episode, or I’ll the help of my fellow support staff—best back into cycling and has pretend I do so I can go visit the set—shout out support staff on the lot as far as I’m concerned. a trip to the Philippines to Stage 3 and Stage 4! If I play my cards right, planned for February. I’ll catch a glimpse of Dule Hill (playing the 4:00-6:00 p.m.: I don’t know if this has become role of Albert Cobb) doing some impromptu tap clear yet, but food is an important part of the Bill Rimpau, Set Lighting dancing on stage. If I play my cards really right, creative process for our staff, cast, and crew. So, and wife, Jagi I stick around for a bit and watch a perfectly the writer and director of every episode treat us executed walk-and-talk scene with our stellar all to a treat truck! I often coordinate between On the birth of your ensemble cast including THE Elliott Gould the truck and our wonderful transpo team and grandson, Bodhi Robert (Isaiah Roth) and THE Laverne Cox (Cameron our equally wonderful production team. Today September 3 Wirth). is a crepe truck! So, you’re welcome for making Born to Ashley and Justin the whole lot smell delicious. Babin 12:30 p.m.: Lunch, lunch, lunch. This is probably, and most accurately, the backbone 6:00-8:00 p.m.: The room breaks! Writers are of my day. Getting lunch for my writers means released into the wild. And by wild I mean our feeding my writers. Feeding my writers means bullpen. Even though we all spend so much fed writers, and fed writers are writing writers. time together throughout the day, this is when Thank you to everyone who donated or I try to mix it up, but we’re usually having a we have major group debriefs, headlines, and attempted to donate blood at the Children’s version of salads and sandwiches. summations—closing arguments, you could Hospital (CHLA) Blood Drive on September say (Kidding! We’re not actually lawyers!) I 14, 2016. The blood collected at our drive 2:00 p.m.: Table Read Time. Every episode do a clean sweep of the room, wipe down the makes an immediate impact on the lives gets its own table read. It’s one of my favorite kitchen, load up that dishwasher, and check of the children in need, and goes a long way toward helping replenish the CHLA traditions for a few reasons. First, it gets out the schedule for tomorrow. 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