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The Writers Panel

Neil Cross

The Writers Panel

Ben Blacker

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

4.7796 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2015

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Neil Cross, the creator of Luther and Crossbones talks about his beginnings as a novelist, banging his head against the wall, working from Wellington, New Zealand (where this interview was recorded!), learning TV from his first job on BBC's Spooks/MI-5, the fun of writing Doctor Who, and lots more, including comic books, Fox's Luther remake, and how great Idris Elba and Matt Smith are.


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0:00.0

Girls like Rosie don't get into real trouble.

0:04.2

At least that's what Kate thought before becoming obsessed with the mystery of what happened

0:08.1

to the young girl found murdered in her quiet English village.

0:12.7

Debbie Howell's debut novel has been compared to The Lovely Bones and Reconstructing Amelia.

0:17.8

Uncover the secrets yourself and pick up a copy of The Bones of You, on sale wherever books are sold, and at Kensingtonbooks.com.

0:26.5

Hey, your buddies, are you going to San Diego Comic-Con?

0:29.5

Me too. Why don't we do something together? I'll do a panel, and you come and watch it.

0:34.8

I think I'll do a few. On Thursday, the 9th, at 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. in room 23, ABC.

0:44.4

I'll be doing an official nerdist comics panel. I hope you come there for it. We're going to get

0:50.4

some cool people to talk to. Also on Thursday, at 4.30 to 5.30 at the Horton Grand Theater, I'm doing a panel about creative

0:59.4

people who are or were comic book readers, and we've got some good people lined up that I can't

1:04.3

tell you about yet.

1:06.4

And then finally on Saturday, the 11th at the BanffPF stage, which is an off-site outdoor thing.

1:13.6

I'm putting together a fun group to do a Nerdist Riders panel from 11 to 12, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.

1:20.0

And that should be a lot of fun.

1:21.6

I will give you all of the details, including appearing on a bunch of thrilling adventure hour panels with some cool folks that you're going to want to check out on Facebook.com slash nerdist writers panel or go to thrillingadventurehour.com or go to our Tumblr or our Twitter. Go to my Twitter at Ben Blacker. Just find me and then find me at San Diego. Deal? Deal.

1:50.6

Now entering nerdist.com. Today's episode was recorded in New Zealand, in Wellington at

1:58.3

Neil Cross's house. So thanks to Neil for letting me come over and chat with him for, God, like two hours.

2:04.6

It was incredibly fun and I just can't thank him enough.

2:07.6

Thanks also to Chris Chibnall and Josh Friedman who helped put me in touch with Neil in the first place.

2:13.6

You guys are wonderful.

2:16.6

My name is Ben Blacker. I'm the host and creator of the

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