Downward Dog
The Writers Panel
Ben Blacker
4.7 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2017
⏱️ 96 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
The showrunners of ABC's terrific Downward Dog, John Hoberg & Kat Likkel, talk about being a married couple and writing partners, protecting and translating the show creators' vision, what they learned working on My Name Is Earl, The Neighbors, and more, running Galavant in its second season, their approach to comedy, and lots more. Downward Dog premieres May 17th on ABC. Watch it! It's like a terrific indie movie that happens to have a dog as its narrator.
LISTEN TO THE WRITERS PANEL AD-FREE ON FOREVER DOG PLUS:
https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plus
CONNECT W/ BEN BLACKER & THE WRITER'S PANEL ON SOCIAL MEDIA
https://twitter.com/BENBLACKER
https://www.facebook.com/TVWritersPanel
THE WRITER'S PANEL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST
https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/the-writers-panel
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you want a career in game development or filmmaking? |
| 0:03.0 | Come to Terminus! |
| 0:05.0 | Terminus Conference and Festival is a one-of-a-kind event for emerging creatives in film and gaming. |
| 0:11.0 | It's held June 22nd to 25th, 2017, in Atlanta, Georgia, and if you haven't been to Atlanta at the end of June, this is the perfect chance. |
| 0:20.0 | It's beautiful. Terminus is the perfect chance. It's beautiful. |
| 0:23.1 | Terminus is the perfect thing for creators and fans looking to grow their careers while also |
| 0:27.3 | having fun. |
| 0:28.8 | You can explore different networking opportunities, go to parties, there are educational |
| 0:33.3 | workshops for game developers, and they're led by the likes of Ubisoft, Ados Montreal, and |
| 0:39.6 | Shell Games. Best of all, listeners to this podcast can get 25% off of all access badges by using |
| 0:49.5 | the code Nerdist Rider, all one word, and all lowercase at checkout. That's nerdist writer. |
| 0:57.3 | Go to terminus event.com, t-e-r-m-I-N-U-S-E-E-N-T-T-com, and use the code |
| 1:05.8 | nerdist writer to go to the Terminus Conference and festival at the end of June. |
| 1:12.3 | You will love it. |
| 1:16.9 | Now entering nerdist.com. |
| 1:18.3 | Welcome to the Writers Panel. |
| 1:21.5 | I'm Ben Blacker, the creator and moderator of the podcast. |
| 1:26.6 | I created the show because I wanted to talk to other writers about the business and process of writing. |
| 1:32.2 | I've had more than 500 writers on the show, so please check the archives to find more writers and more TV shows of interest to you. I'm a writer myself, having written for |
| 1:37.4 | supernatural, Puss and Boots, and other programs. I have a couple of cool projects out this |
| 1:42.2 | first quarter of 2017 that I hope you'll check out. |
| 1:45.7 | One is the Supernatural Western comic book series from Boom Publishing that I wrote with my writing partner, Ben Acker, and our friend, the TV showrunner, Andrew Miller. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ben Blacker, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Ben Blacker and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.