A lot of people who work in television don’t seem to have much respect for the medium. If I had a dollar for every time in the past 34 years that I’ve heard a TV actor, writer, or producer say that they don’t watch TV, I’d have a lot of dollars.This prevailing attitude is one of the reasons why “Abbott Elementary” creator/writer/executive producer/star Quinta Brunson is such a delight. She loves TV, and she’s not above saying so.
• Mary Richards, the central character in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” was a “huge inspiration” for Janine, the idealistic young teacher Brunson plays. And, like Moore, Brunson is smart enough to surround herself with an ensemble cast and spread the laughs around. Executive producer Justin Halpern said he’s struck by how “gracious” and “ego-less” Brunson is. “Never once in this entire process has Quinta ever come and been, like, ‘I need more this,’” he said.
“We think we know what these people are, but who are they really?” she said. “And you’ve seen it in sillier versions, like ‘What We Do in the Shadows.’ Yeah, I think I know about vampires. But there’s so much more to learn once you pull back the curtain. So I wanted to keep up that tradition of this format” — pulling back the curtain on elementary school teachers.
The short-lived 2013 sitcom — full title: “Ja’mie: Private School Girl” — featured comedian Chris Lilley in drag as a teenage school girl, an utterly awful character.“But at the time Ja’mie was more inspiration for me for Ava than, like, anything,” Brunson said.
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