There’s a lot that goes on to “scripted” live productions. In the reading “Doing it Live” by Joanna Mitchell, Joanna tell us how much effort is put into the pre-produciton and preparation for filming a scripted live drama. The Bill, is usually filmed on single camera, but for special occasions, such as anniversaries, they decided to film it live and broadcast it live. Now just because it was broadcast live, it does not mean everything was improv. In fact, she states it takes a much more preparation than the usual. Instead of 2-3 weeks to prepare an episode, they would have to use 6 weeks to prepare the episodes ready to go live. Even though it is live, it is scripted and ready to go when it goes to air. They did many rehearsal runs in preparation, including one just in the morning, before the actual episode was going to be aired live. Even though Joanna, state that the production was not perfect, it was the fact that the imperfections that added to the liveliness and that the team felt a huge sense of accomplishment by the end of it. Because they pushed a live drama to success.