It might even be show-specific; honestly no two shows I've worked on have done it the same way. But they're mainly comedies, and most of them have been-- I won't say small-- lean and mean?

On my current show (cable single-cam sitcom, 13-episodes) there is no writers' assistant; just a script coordinator and a showrunner's assistant. But the show block-shoots and the room started up in January/February so releasing drafts and revisions isn't an ongoing process; it happened over a few hiatuses and that was it.

On the show before my current one (big network single cam sitcom, 22 episodes), the baby writers' assistant got "promoted" to script coordinator after the person ahead of him quit and the coordinator-- who had been doing it for SEVEN YEARS-- finally got bumped to staff writer. It should be noted that neither of them were particularly keen on being script coordinator, it was just a way to get access to the writers. He was like, "uh, I guess this is my job now?" Production/legal/S&P stuff was mostly handled by an Associate Producer (on the production side).

I will say that having an extensive background in production OUGHT to make me pretty well-suited to be a script coordinator, but