Despite the difficulties inherent in the television production industry, it continues to thrive and flourish. Given the huge amount of experience, expertise, and resources available, it is possible to manage projects in television production with excellence and integrity. However, even though the television production industry offers many advantages in the practice of project management, including highly developed methodologies and straightforward (technical) quality management, productions fail or encounter significant setbacks with great regularity. This points to the inherent complexity and difficulty of the production process. This paper identifies commonalities in the project management experience within television production, in an effort to develop a list of universal “worst practices.” It is hoped that by identifying a suite of worst practices, this paper will be helpful in guiding future production endeavors.