Aside from Jane Espenson, who else is going to be writing the scripts?
We can categorically say we have the best writing team working in half hour animation, bar none. The reason is that everyone is working on the live action series that is working in the animated show.
I got to work with Joss on the pilot and the series bible (which is the handbook for the series). He is very much involved in every script as he is in the live show - how did I get so lucky? This does, in many ways, make it an easy job for me because the people that we're working with know the characters so well and get the humour so easily.
Like Jane, Steve DeKnight has finished more than one; Doug Petrie and David Fury will each be doing at least one. Drew Greenberg, who started writing on the live action show this season, has one going. Rebecca Kirshner has a really wild one in mind. There really isn't anybody on the current writing staff who hasn't at some point come across and said "As soon as we get an opening, how do we fit ourselves in?"
Of course, we have a special episode all plotted out, waiting for Marti Noxon to be able to take a breath and go ahead and do it, only because as a fan and a producer of the show, I have to get one out of Marti somehow. That would be my dream come true.
I can't tell you the number of times our network executive and I sit on the phone and just laugh. She'll say, "Now, on page 27, Xander says..." and then she'll burst out laughing and then I'll say "Is that a note?" She'll say, "Yes, the note is that's a really funny line." I'll ask "You don't want to change it? It's not too funny, is it?" and she'll say, "No, no, we just want to let you know that that's very funny."
