The show's production process changed from attempting to write main stories in one week (which failed because research would arrive midway through and invalidate written work) to a six-week cycle where the team writes six stories simultaneously, preventing the collapse of work due to incoming research.

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John Oliver

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when we first began we were doing our main story in one week then it became clear that was a crazy thing to it was a terrible way to set it up because we would come up with the idea for a story start writing 3 Days Later research would come in which would wipe away everything that we just written

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Sometimes John Oliver Wants to ‘Burn Everything Down’ | The InterviewThe Interview
Created: 8/13/2026, 3:27:17 AM

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