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The Writers Panel

BONUS EPISODE TV Writers Room from WonderCon

The Writers Panel

Ben Blacker

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

4.7796 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Moderated by Sony Pictures Television's jocular senior VP of drama development & production Chris Parnell, this year's heroic lineup includes Jesse Alexander (Agent X, Heroes, Lost, Hannibal), Michael Narducci (The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Medium), not so savage Steve Holland (The Big Bang Theory), Sarah Watson (Parenthood, About a Boy), Ashley E. Miller (Terminator, Fringe, Andromeda), Steve Melching (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Rebels, Guardians of the Galaxy Animated), Gabrielle Stanton (The Flash, Haven, Castle), Jose Molina (Agent Carter, Sleepy Hollow, Firefly), Javier Grillo-Marxuach (Helix, Lost, The Middleman), and Mark A. Altman (Femme Fatales, Castle, Necessary Roughness).

Recorded April 4, 2015.


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0:00.0

Now entering nerdist.com.

0:05.2

Today's episode was recorded at WonderCon in Anaheim and is hosted by Sony's Chris Parnell, who's great.

0:14.0

You guys remember him from our executives panel.

0:16.8

It's a terrific group of writers.

0:18.7

I think you'll enjoy this podcast.

0:20.4

Hey, if you're enjoying the podcast in general, please do me a favor and leave a review on iTunes. Also, like the page on Facebook. Facebook.com slash nerdist writers panel. That's kind of the only place where I can tell you about upcoming live episodes of which there are some, both in L.A.,

0:38.7

and we're going to do some in New York in the fall.

0:40.7

So go like us on Facebook, leave a review on iTunes.

0:44.2

It always makes me feel good when I'm feeling sad.

0:46.9

I read those reviews because you guys are so nice.

0:49.2

And you are so nice for continuing to listen.

0:51.4

Thank you for it. It's the nerd is writers panel and is hosted by Ben Blacker where he gets a bunch of writers

0:57.1

and he asks him lots of questions and it's starting now so this will be the end of the theme.

1:01.3

I'd like to thank Altman and the gang for inviting me back. I'm Chris Parnell. I'm the senior

1:07.2

vice president of drama development over at Sony Pictures Television, which

1:12.8

means I'm a lucky guy who gets to work with writers like these guys every day selling

1:19.4

their ideas into scripts, which we try to sell the pilots, which hopefully get made into

1:25.4

series.

1:26.4

I've been fortunate to work on the pilot of

1:29.2

Breaking Bad, most recently, Blacklist and Helix, powers on PlayStation, which I'm really proud of,

1:38.3

and Outlander, which debuts tonight. And I'm working on the pilot of Preacher, too, right now.

1:45.9

But let me introduce these guys and introduce the panel.

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