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The Writers Panel

Alena Smith (Dickinson) and Tony McNamara (The Great)

The Writers Panel

Ben Blacker

Movies, Hollywood, Tv & Film, Screenwriting, Writing, Tv

4.6799 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Ben talks to Alena Smith (creator, Dickinson) and Tony McNamara (creator, The Great) about revolutionizing the TV period drama with their innovative takes on Emily Dickinson and Catherine the Great.


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0:00.0

Forever

0:00.8

Dog.

0:03.8

They write, they talk, and talk about what they write, tune in time to tune out, or

0:08.5

whenever the time is right, it's the writer's panel with bad blacker, and it's starting now.

0:14.5

Oh, yeah!

0:16.5

This is how a podcast starts.

0:18.8

I'm just going to throw to you immediately and have you introduce yourselves on the podcast so the listener knows what you sound like.

0:28.3

Tell us who you are and where they may have seen your name on their TV or movie screens.

0:33.9

And Elena, let's start with you.

0:36.2

Hi, I'm Elena Smith.

0:38.3

Happy to be here with both of you.

0:41.3

And I created Dickinson on Apple TV Plus, which season one is now available for free, actually.

0:53.3

Apple just lifted the paywall, you know, for everyone

0:57.7

stuck at home dealing with coronavirus. So if you haven't already watched it, please go check

1:03.7

it out.

1:04.7

Tony.

1:05.7

I'm Tony McDonough. I'm a creator of the great show coming out in Hulu in a couple of weeks.

1:16.1

And that's it. And we've seen your name on a couple of feature films as well.

1:22.5

Yeah, feature films I wrote The Favorite, other things. I was really glad, you know, it was somewhat happenstance that we got the two of you together.

1:35.7

But I think there's great, there's a lot to talk about.

1:39.2

There's a lot of, you know, overlap in the kinds of work that you do.

1:42.7

While they are very different, they also have a lot in common.

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