One Person Directed Nearly Every Episode In Seinfeld’s First 5 Seasons

Many TV instructors have had hot stripes, but few have been as productive as Tom Cherones, who had experienced “Seinfeld”. The filmmaker reached the ground level of the unreasonable NBC -satcom and stayed at the exhibition until the end of the fifth season. By that time, Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld’s “Show About Nothing” were on their way to the top of the television heap, climbing Nielson’s ratings, and taking over a cultural zeitgeist with sentences like “My domain” And “not that there is nothing wrong with it!”

Cherones were there for everything, and he didn’t just mark a few episodes behind each episode after each episode. Instead, the director helped a great 80 episodes in the first five seasons – only 86. Show’s Pilot, The Philip Baker Hall’s guest star “The Library” and Jason Alexander’s Director debut They are the only six episodes in the first half of the exhibition, which Cherones did not direct. The filmmaker, who also served as a producer of the first five seasons of the exhibition, earned even the DGA Award of the 4 -favorite “The Contest” of the season and shares Emmy Win of the Lonely Comedy Series in the exhibition.

If Cherones directed so many hits, why did he leave “Seinfeld” on its prime minister? When He told once The Academy of Television and the Academy of Sciences “Jerry asked me. He was tired of the same thing.” At that time, both Seinfeld and David felt comicly complicated Sitcom pushing to new places, and according to Cherones and others, this assignment led to staff change-not only after the exhibition became a mega hit. “We changed writers almost every season,” Cherones explained to the interviewer in 2011 “and finally he just wanted someone else [as director]Another presence tries to keep it fresh. “Andy Ackerman, known for his” Cheers “work, moved as CEO of later seasons.

“[Jerry] From the very beginning, “when this is no longer working, we have to stop,” “Cherones said,” and eventually he did. “The director admitted to the Academy that he did not look much” Seinfeld “when asked to leave the program, but stressed that the former show he didn’t just go – he just didn’t watch TV at all. The only one when Cherones stayed busy. Witch “.

Cherones also answered the call when Seinfeld asked him and many other former actors and crew members to return to the final episode of the series. The upcoming instructor played extra during the café scene and resembled an exchange with his scene – former NBC’s Exec Warren Littlefield, who drove to his home, which Seinfeld was primarily about the quality of the exhibition. “[Littlefield] I said, “I just offered Jerry two million dollars a week to make a new season, and he said no,” Cherones recalled. later rises to an even higherBut it didn’t matter; “Seinfeld” ended after nine seasons in the final of the series, which will continue to get fans to this day. Cherones, on the other hand, made time on his busy schedule to watch the two -part episode in which he performed. His judgment? “I didn’t like it very well. I just thought it was a little too depressing.”