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According Stephen Root, the writers' room has already been working for a few weeks, since early July. They expect to get the scripts before the New Year.

> "We started in late May last year. We're hoping to start a lot sooner than that ​so we can get it out sooner," Root tells Polygon.

> "The writer's room opened about two weeks ago, so they should be able to have fairly complete scripts by December," he says. "Hopefully we can get out there a little quicker."

According interview of Matt Cherniss, Apple TV programming head, to Variety.

> We’ve been hearing Ben Stiller is more involved than he had planned to be this season.

> Ben is incredibly involved in the show. There are a lot of different things that Ben’s doing now. He’s acting in the show [“The Off Weeks”] for us, he has movies coming out. I’ve never met anyone that works the hours that he works, and constantly involved in the show. I don’t think that neither was there an expectation from us that that would change, nor was there a desire for that to change for us. I think that everything he puts into the show is additive, and as much time as he’ll give us we’ll take.

P. S. But the thing is the head of Apple TV programming doesn't know when season 3 is going to start filming.

> Don’t have set dates yet for the show, but we’re moving along really well, and we’re nearing production on that. We’ve seen most of the material, and I think it totally delivers for the audience. With a show like “Severance,” the most important thing is that we deliver on sort of what those epic first two seasons delivered, and then it even gets bigger from there.