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The Writers Panel

BONUS EPISODE The Devoted Niche vs The Casual Mass panel from ATX Television Festival

The Writers Panel

Ben Blacker

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

4.7796 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2015

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

What makes an audience valuable? Can a loyal, passionate fan base whose voice is ten times louder than a casual viewer make an impact? That and more are discussed by Phil Rosenthal (creator, Everybody Loves Raymond), Bryan Fuller (creator, Hannibal, Pushing Daisies, Wonder Falls), Noah Hawley (creator, Fargo), and HBO director of development Kathleen McCaffrey.

Recorded June 5, 2015 at ATX Television Festival.


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0:00.0

Now entering nerdist.com.

0:05.1

Today's episode was recorded at the ATX Television Festival in Austin, season four, which was this year, first weekend in June 2015.

0:14.8

We had so much fun at ATX this year. It was bigger and better than it ever was.

0:19.3

I don't know why you're not coming next year.

0:21.3

Go to ATXFestival.com and get your badge for next year. Don't wait to find out who's going to be

0:28.4

there because if you wait to find out who's going to be there, you're going to miss an opportunity

0:31.4

to get your badge. Go to ATXFestival.com. This year, my pal, Todd Cooper and I, got the opportunity to write a theme song for ATX, and we had a lot of fun doing it.

0:42.2

They wound up recording different music to the lyrics that we wrote, but we are really partial to the version that we did.

0:48.5

So you're going to hear that before every ATX recorded podcast that I put out.

0:53.5

So please go to ATXFestival.com and get your badge for 2016

0:58.0

and enjoy this theme song that we wrote.

1:01.7

Your TV family, we're glad you came

1:04.8

where everybody knows your name.

1:08.1

The greatest scene you've ever seen

1:11.7

on either side

1:13.4

of your TV screen

1:15.0

So keep it weird

1:16.8

And beat the Texas

1:18.6

heat

1:19.3

And grab a beer

1:23.7

With brooch and chasing

1:25.4

the street

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