James L. Brooks in conversation with Phil Rosenthal from ATX Television Festival.
The Writers Panel
Ben Blacker
4.7 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2015
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
James L. Brooks is the writer/director of such seminal films as Terms of Endearment and Broadcast News. In TV, he started in series such as My Mother the Car, That Girl, and The Andy Griffith Show before creating or co-creating a staggering list of shows that changed the entertainment landscape: Room 222, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-offs Rhoda, Phyllis, and Lou Grant, Taxi, and more. He's responsible for shepherding The Tracy Ullman Show and The Simpsons. In this candid conversation with Everybody Loves Raymond co-creator Phil Rosenthal, Brooks discusses fifty years in television.
Recorded June 6, 2015 at ATX.
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| 1:06.4 | Today's episode was recorded at the ATX Television Festival in Austin, season four, which was this year, first weekend in June, 2015. |
| 1:16.0 | We had so much fun at ATX this year. It was bigger and better than it ever was. |
| 1:20.6 | I don't know why you're not coming next year. Go to ATXFestival.com and get your badge for next year. |
| 1:27.9 | Don't wait to find out who's going to be there, |
| 1:29.9 | because if you wait to find out who's going to be there, |
| 1:31.5 | you're going to miss an opportunity to get your badge. |
| 1:33.9 | Go to ATXFestival.com. I'm going to be. You know, Hi, everybody. |
| 2:09.6 | Isn't this nice. |
| 2:11.3 | Jim, Jim is excited. |
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