Writing a scenario or creating a television series is hard work. Throughout the whole process, you encounter one obstacle to telling stories after another, and although you know better, every time you clear that obstacle, you believe you're free at home. You are not. And once you finish that first draft, you will have to switch through the track to transfer the obstacles to be prescribed.

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Sometimes, every aspect of this process is loaded with challenges. You are inexplicably struggling to find the right names of characters and names in places. Everything is wrong to appear with the right title of the show or the movie itself is a bear. When this becomes a problem at a studio or network level, marketing departments are included, leading to storm sessions that provide excessive power of unusable titles.

If the German playwright Peter Weis had his way, the whole world would know his masterpiece in the 1963 Brecht masterpiece as "persecution and assassination against Jeanan-Paul Marat, as the prisoners of the Asylum of Charenton under the leadership of Marquis." However, this does not approach theater or movie brands, so the title is usually shortened to "Marat/Sade". For a long time, unnoticeable Action-Triller by Bruce Willis "Stunning Distance" was known as "Three Rivers;" Changing the title angered the inhabitants of Pittsburgh and absolutely no one else. Are you a "beautiful woman" fan? Did you know that it was almost called "3000" (in connection with the amount of money Iaululia's sex worker Roberts received for her work in the original scenario)? Well, the popular NCIS crime drama almost had a superfluous title, the NCIS Navy.

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The headlines can be difficult! No one knows this better than Donald P. Belisario, a veteran television producer who created such A massive successful series like "Magnum Pi", "Kwala Jump" and "Jag". When Spinoff began developing "Jag" for the maritime criminal investigation, Belisario wanted to go again acronym. CBS, however, was not sure that the TV audience would be receptive to another series entitled Acronym, especially the one that was not a word (like "Jag" or "chips"). They may also be worried that they are pressing their acronym happiness given the success of Spinoff CSI's success, so they insisted he calls his new show "Navy NCIS".

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Belisari firmly refused. How He told the Newujork Times In 2005:

"I fought to the end.

Belisari clicked on his guns and slapped the net over the stupidity of, in essence, calling his new show "Maritime Investigative Service". It would be the television title equivalent to when people say ATM machine (because it would be a "automated machine machine"). From the 2003 CBS Prime Minister, NCIS produced six Spinoff, while the leader is still one of the most popular television shows.

I know what you are thinking and, yes, it is time for CBS to explore the "Marat/Sade" universe.

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