Negotiations special
The Writers Panel
Ben Blacker
4.7 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2017
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Former WGA President Christopher Keyser (co-creator, Party of Five) is joined by guild members Marqui Jackson (Rosewood; Battle Creek) and Deirdre Mangan (iZombie) to talk about today's return to the negotiating table with the AMPTP (the studios and networks), what the WGA is asking for, what's at stake, bagels, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Now entering nerdist.com. Welcome to the Writers panel. I'm Ben Blacker, the creator and moderator of the podcast. I created the show because I wanted to talk to other writers about the business and process of writing. I've had more than 500 writers on the show, so please check the archives to find more writers and more TV shows of interest to you. |
| 0:23.2 | I'm a writer myself, having written for Supernatural, Puss and Boots, and other programs. |
| 0:28.3 | I have a couple of cool projects out this first quarter of 2017 that I hope you'll check out. |
| 0:33.5 | One is the Supernatural Western comic book series from Boom Publishing that I wrote with my writing partner, Ben Acker, and our friend, the TV showrunner, Andrew Miller. |
| 0:42.1 | It's beautifully illustrated by Hannah Christensen, and the first issue is available in comic stores and online February 8th. |
| 0:49.5 | In March comes the first book in a series of young adult novels that Acker and I wrote called Star Wars Join the Resistance. It takes place just before the Force Awakens and is about a bunch |
| 0:59.6 | of kids who join the fight against the First Order. But mostly they have adventures, |
| 1:03.6 | fall in love with each other, and get in trouble. I hope you'll check out both of those projects. |
| 1:07.8 | We're very proud of how they came out. Let me know who you'd like to hear on this podcast by following me on Twitter at Ben Blacker, |
| 1:14.5 | like the color only more so, liking the Writerspanel on Facebook and visiting writerspanel.tumler.com. |
| 1:21.5 | And if you like the show, please leave a review on iTunes. |
| 1:24.6 | Reading those reviews really provides a pick-me-up. |
| 1:27.8 | They write, they talk, and talk about what they write. |
| 1:30.8 | Tune in that tonight, or whatever the time is right, it's the writer's panel with |
| 1:35.0 | Blacker, and it's starting now. |
| 1:38.5 | Oh, yeah! |
| 1:41.2 | Thank you guys for being here for this special edition of the writers panel. |
| 1:46.0 | We are sitting with Christopher Kaiser, who is former WGA president. |
| 1:51.0 | W.J. West. |
| 1:52.0 | W.J. West president. That's right. That's an important distinction. |
| 1:55.0 | From 2011 to 2015, is that right? |
| 1:58.0 | I think that's right. Yes. I think that's right. |
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