“Network's Identity” from ATX
The Writers Panel
Ben Blacker
4.7 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
As the TV landscape changes, each network grapples to find its own place on the spectrum. Kathleen McCaffrey (HBO), Grant Gish (Marvel), and Karey Burke (Freeform) discuss their respective programming ethos and how their competitions successes and failures inform the direction they lead their networks.
Recorded at ATX Television Festival on June 10, 2017.
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| 0:00.0 | Now entering nerdist.com. |
| 0:05.1 | Hey, this is the first of the last batch of recordings from last year's ATX television festival. |
| 0:11.6 | The best television festival in Austin or anywhere. |
| 0:16.0 | It really is fun if you guys haven't been to ATX. |
| 0:19.1 | What's stopping you? |
| 0:20.8 | This year it is June 7th through 10th |
| 0:23.2 | in Austin. You can go to ATXFestival.com to get badges. They've already announced a whole |
| 0:32.0 | bunch of awesome things for this year's lineup, including a whole thing, a whole conversation |
| 0:37.4 | with Freeform about the sort of |
| 0:39.5 | shows they're doing and millennial programming. They got folks from Queen Sugar coming. They've got |
| 0:45.5 | folks from drunk history doing an interactive panel. The new audience network, Condor, based on |
| 0:53.2 | three days of the Condor, there's a TV show. And that's |
| 0:58.0 | going to be there. American woman, a whole bunch of really cool things. So that's the stuff |
| 1:03.5 | that's already announced. There's even more great stuff coming. Once again, it is June 7th through |
| 1:09.7 | 10th in Austin, ATXFestival.com to get badges, which do it. You know, and I'm sorry. And yeah, we're going to get your moderator out here from the Hollywood reporter, Mr. Dan Feinberg. |
| 1:52.8 | Thank you much for coming out to a network identity, brave new world or business as usual. |
| 1:57.2 | I feel like there's probably a third option to this that we may get into here. |
| 2:03.3 | Something along the lines of doesn't matter anymore at all. And I think that'll be sort of part of |
| 2:08.0 | the fun. So, okay, let's bring out our three panelists up first. The EVP of Programming and |
| 2:12.7 | Development from Freeform Carrie Burke, VP of Comedy Development for Marvel, Grant Gish, and VP of programming for |
| 2:20.4 | HBO, Kathleen McCaffery. First of all, I want to do a little test with the audience. About a |
| 2:27.4 | month and a half ago, I went to my alma mater. A couple of people were sort of interested in what a TV |
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