A writer’s life without ‘Bonnie’

I am one of the several writers who was fired from the sitcom “Life with Bonnie” by Bonnie Hunt. In Mark Sach’s article of Nov. 11 (“In the World of TV Casting, Nothing’s Set in Stone”), he discusses the program and states that “as the ratings softened, the series’ writing staff was cut loose,” implying that the staff was somehow viewed as responsible for a poor showing by the program. This conclusion is illogical and uninformed, as every episode up to the time of the mass firing had been written by Hunt and her partner, Don Lake.

The writing staff was not used, and had, in fact, been barred from the set. In addition, and perhaps most telling, no one ever bought the staff lunch. In the world of television, there is no greater slight, or truer death knell.

David Regal

Burbank