Development Executives
The Writers Panel
Ben Blacker
4.7 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2016
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Joanna Klein (The CW), Kathleen McCaffrey (HBO), Grant Gish (Fox Animation), Bryan Seabury (CBS), and Brendan Countee (Hulu) discuss their role in getting an episode from pilot script to production to ready for air. Hear their POV and goals, the factors viewers might never have considered, as they give us an inside look at creating shows from the business side of show business.
Moderated by Lesley Goldberg (The Hollywood Reporter).
Recorded at ATX Television Festival on June 10, 2016.
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| 0:00.0 | Now entering nerdist.com. |
| 0:05.0 | Today's episode was recorded at ATX Television Fest. |
| 0:09.0 | Were you there? It was the best, right? |
| 0:11.0 | Were you not there? Why weren't you there? |
| 0:14.0 | Season 6 badges are now on sale. That's for next year. |
| 0:17.0 | You don't want to miss this. |
| 0:19.0 | They've already got some amazing things at cooking. |
| 0:21.6 | Go to ATXFestival.com. Get your season six badges there. Also, they're putting up |
| 0:29.2 | video versions of all of the podcasts that I'll be releasing and all of the panels and stuff, |
| 0:35.2 | some that I won't be releasing. Go to a television experience.com, |
| 0:40.4 | a television experience.com, |
| 0:42.2 | and you can see the video version of this |
| 0:43.8 | and many other panels and events |
| 0:46.7 | that happened at ATX this year. |
| 0:49.3 | Hope to see you in 2017. |
| 0:51.2 | Thank you. in 2017. I'm Leslie Goldberg. I'm the TV news editor at The Hollywood Reporter, and I'm here basically |
| 1:28.8 | because the same reason that you are, I'm totally fascinated by how television is made. |
| 1:34.8 | Before shows like Game of Thrones, Last Man on Earth, the Flash, and the Good Wife became hits, |
| 1:39.5 | they went through a really long development process to get to the screen that started with a pitch |
| 1:43.2 | and a development executive that saw a hit in the screen that started with a pitch and a development |
| 1:44.6 | executive that saw a hit in the making. Today we're going to talk about, today we're going to |
| 1:50.1 | meet some of the biggest buyers in the business and talk about the hottest topics facing the |
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