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The Writers Panel

MANHATTAN's Sam Shaw and Thomas Schlamme

The Writers Panel

Ben Blacker

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

4.7796 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2015

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Show EP/creator Sam Shaw and EP/director Thomas Schlamme (Sports Night; The West Wing; ER; The Americans) discuss bringing out the show's themes, casting, pitching, and lots more. Season 2 of Manhattan airs Tuesday, October 13, at 9pm on WGN America.


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0:00.0

Now entering nerdist.com.

0:05.2

Here we go. Last live Nerdist Writers' panels of the year are coming up in October and November.

0:11.8

Los Angeles, October 15th, at CBS Radford Studio, with CBS Studio All-Starrunners, including Rob Doherty of Elementary,

0:22.1

Aileen Brush McKenna of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Craig Sweeney, of Limitless,

0:26.3

and our old pal Jenny Snyder Erman, the showrunner of Jane the Virgin.

0:30.6

This should be a really fun time.

0:31.9

It's hosted at CBS, but you can get tickets.

0:34.9

They're really cheap, only $5.

0:37.4

I hope you can join us on October 15th.

0:39.5

If not, Los Angeles, October 18th at Meltdown, celebrating Hulu's new show Casual with director Jason Reitman, who of course directed Juno, young adults, some other films.

0:52.2

Our old friend Liz Tigilar, the creator of Life Unexpected, and all the folks behind

0:58.2

casual will also be screening episodes you have never seen before.

1:02.9

So join us on the 18th for that, Los Angeles.

1:05.4

And finally, Boston, November 14th at Brookline Booksmith with Joe Hill.

1:10.3

This was rescheduled from last month.

1:12.7

We're finally going to do this. Joe is a terrific writer and a great guy. It should be a fun

1:17.4

conversation, and that benefits 826 Boston. All the others benefit 826 L.A.

1:23.0

Hope you can join us for details. Go topanel dot tumbler.com.

1:28.3

Writerspanel.tumbler.com. That's where I'll put all of the information as well as more information and other stuff.

1:36.3

It's the nerd is writers panel and it's hosted by Ben Blacker where he gets a bunch of writers and he asks him lots of questions and it's starting now so this will be the end of the theme.

1:45.0

My name is Ben Blacker. I'm the creator and moderator of the Nerdist Writers Panel. I'm also a television writer myself, having written for Supernatural, Super Ninja's, DreamWorks, Puss & Boots, and Currently FX's new series, Keshis and Clay.

2:00.0

This is it.

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