Television Writing
Gina Fattore moved to LA in the fall of 1995 with two suitcases, half a Seinfeld spec, and the dream of becoming a television writer. Below please find a selection of salient details from a career spent mostly fearing the set and pitching stuff that did not make it in.
First TV Job Where No One Was Allowed To Interrupt Me Because I Was the Boss: Dare Me
First TV Job Ever: Assistant to Greg Daniels
First TV Writing Credit: “Bobby Slam,” King of the Hill, Season 2, Episode 10
First Job Where I Got to Fly First-Class: Dawson’s Creek
Highlight of Season Three: Table read of “The Longest Day”
Highlight of Season Four: I gave Michelle Williams a copy of Nabokov’s Lectures on Literature, and there’s a shot where you can see her carrying it down the halls of Capeside High School.
Highlight of Season Five: Forced Ken Marino to spout some gibberish about Flaubert’s Sentimental Education
Highlight of Season Six: “Castaways”
Shortest Job Where I Still Managed to Score a Holiday Gift: Wonderfalls
Shortest Commute: Dawson’s Creek, Seasons 4-6
Biggest victory in the life of a working TV writer: A line from my first Gilmore Girls episode made it into the Entertainment Weekly Sound Bites column… and it was a line I had actually written.
Most Embarrassing Californication Production Meeting: Episode 303, “Verities and Balderdash”
Fancy Awards Shows Attended: SAG Awards (2009, Californication), Producers Guild Awards (2010, Californication), WGA Awards (2017, Better Things)