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The Writers Panel

High Maintenance

The Writers Panel

Ben Blacker

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

4.7796 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2016

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld, the creators, writers, and directors of web-series High Maintenance discuss their emotional writing process, keeping their trusted collaborators, the stories that interest them, and more. High Maintenance makes its premiere on HBO on September 16. All past episodes will then be available on HBOGo.


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0:00.0

Los Angeles listeners, we've got two unbelievable live shows coming up.

0:05.5

First, Dead Pilot Society, September 25th at Largo at the Coronet.

0:10.9

You guys know what Dead Pilot Society is.

0:13.4

It's where we do stage readings of pilots that were bought and developed but never shot,

0:19.2

so they're finally getting their chance in the sun.

0:21.6

We have pilots this month by Steve Agee and Rob Schrabb.

0:26.6

Steve, of course, hilarious comedian actor, and Rob Schraub is the co-creator of the Sarah Silverman program on which Steve appeared.

0:33.6

It's a great, unbelievable, funny script by Steve, based on his own experiences

0:40.5

of going to military school as a teenager. And then we've got another really funny script from

0:46.3

Samantha McIntyre, a writer from Married, and her first feature is going to be Brie Larson's

0:53.0

directorial debut. And Samantha wrote this terrific

0:56.3

script about life at a roller rink, the people who work there. Both are worth checking out. That's on

1:03.1

September 25th at Largo. Also at Largo, November 6th, mark your calendar, the 300th episode of the Writers Panel.

1:13.2

We're doing a live one.

1:14.1

We're bringing back lots of our favorite guests.

1:16.5

Should be a lot of fun.

1:17.9

Find tickets for both of those at writerspanel.tumbler.com.

1:23.4

Follow me on Twitter at Ben Blacker.

1:26.1

I'll be posting about the cast for Dead Pilots and as well as the ticketing link. Hope to see you guys there. Thanks, as always, for listening.

1:37.8

Now entering nerdist.com. Welcome to the Writers panel. I'm Ben Blacker, the creator and moderator of the podcast.

1:45.6

I created the show because I wanted to talk to writers about the business and process of writing.

1:50.3

I've had more than 400 writers on the show, so go back and check the archives.

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