First Timers and One Season Wonders
The Writers Panel
Ben Blacker
4.7 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2016
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
A double-header recorded at ATX, a Television Festival this year. First, Ryan Condal (co-creator, Colony), Zander Lehmann (creator, Casual), Sarah Gertrude Shapiro (co-creator, unREAL), and Joe Pokaski (co-creator, Underground) discuss the process of creating and/or running their own show for the first time, and learning to juggle all that having a new series entails, from pitching, to writing and producing a pilot, having their series picked up, organizing a writers room, and being paired with seasoned showrunners (or learning to become one themselves).
Moderated by Tim Goodman (The Hollywood Reporter). Then, Debra Birnbaum (Variety) talks with Hart Hanson (creator, Backstrom), Ted Griffin (creator, Terriers), Javier Grillo-Marxuach (creator, The Middleman), and Kevin Falls (creator, Journeyman) about the lessons they have learned from their one-season wonders, the constantly-changing definitions of success, not compromising creative vision, and how these short-lived series have shaped their ongoing careers.
Recorded at ATX Television Festival on June 11, 2016.
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| 0:32.6 | Now entering nerdist.com. Today's episode was recorded at ATX Television Fest. |
| 0:41.7 | Were you there? |
| 0:42.4 | It was the best, right? |
| 0:43.9 | Were you not there? |
| 0:44.9 | Why weren't you there? |
| 0:46.2 | Season 6 badges are now on sale. |
| 0:48.5 | That's for next year. |
| 0:49.8 | You don't want to miss this. |
| 0:51.4 | They've already got some amazing things at cooking. |
| 0:55.6 | Go to ATX Festival.com. Get your season six badges there. Also, they're putting up video versions of all |
| 1:03.6 | of the podcasts that I'll be releasing and all of the panels and stuff, some that I won't be |
| 1:08.3 | releasing. Go to a television experience.com. a television experience.com, and you can see the video version |
| 1:15.6 | of this and many other panels and events that happened at ATX this year. |
| 1:21.6 | Hope to see you in 2017. |
| 1:59.3 | Thank you. 17. The So first up, we've got Ryan Condal from Colony. |
| 2:05.6 | That was the easy name. |
| 2:06.6 | And then he told me backstays that somebody messed it up at the last festival. |
| 2:09.6 | So I was like, ah. |
| 2:11.6 | And from Unreal, Sarah Gertrude Shapiro. |
| 2:15.6 | From Casual. Eric Gertrude Shapiro. |
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