4.7 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2015
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Chris Cantwell and Chris Rogers, creators of AMC's Halt and Catch Fire, discuss telling personal stories in a public medium, writing together, pitching and selling, and more.
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1:01.4 | Most people don't have cable. |
1:03.2 | Listen, this is how we start. |
1:04.5 | Chris Camwell, Chris Rogers are here. |
1:06.0 | Thank you guys for being here. |
1:06.9 | Halt and Catch Fire is their show. |
1:08.2 | We just started. This is how people watch TV. Yes. We don't, like, only my mom sits down to watch two and a half men when it is live. |
1:16.2 | Yeah, I don't do. I don't watch anything. I'm sorry, Big Bang Theory. Sorry, Mom. |
1:20.0 | Sorry, Mom. Well, no, but I mean, I think like the, the thing of that, though, is that you need live viewers to convince the network to renew the show. |
1:28.7 | Right. |
1:29.3 | And that's like, it's kind of maybe a model that's a little caught between because now you have these streaming services and subscription services where that's like not a huge issue for them. |
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