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Laura Moran

TV writer

Oct 14, 2026

26:27
And then, so can we start off by you talking to me about the differences between multicam, single cam, and then we can get into streaming versus network, how that all plays out for you in the writer's room.
26:38
The dream.
26:39
Welcome to my TED Talk about multicam television.
26:42
So, um, I actually did a video about this because I don't think anyone knows that there are two types of comedy there's one that shot exclusively with one camera single cam comedy that's your office that's going Dutch which I just wrote on any 30 Rock and then there's what's called a multi cam comedy that is shot with what it sounds like, multiple cameras at once, three or four at once.
27:14
And it's shot like a stage, like a play.
27:16
And that's anything that we grew up watching.
27:19
That's Cheers, that's Friends, that's Seinfeld, so on so forth, right? So I grew up writing multi-cam.

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