“Prepackaged” from ATX
The Writers Panel
Ben Blacker
4.7 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
TV executives Kathleen McCaffrey (HBO), Grant Gish (Marvel), Carolyn Newman (eOne), Alex Maggioni (Amblin), Ali Krug (Annapurna Television), Peter Gal (Dreamworks Animation Television), and Simran Sethi (Freeform) discuss the pros & cons of finding and purchasing pre-existing properties across all formats, employing appropriate talent to adapt, packaging with cast and directors, selling to networks, and more.
Moderated by Dan Fienberg (The Hollywood Reporter).
Recorded at ATX Television Festival on June 9, 2017.
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| 0:37.7 | The ATX Television Festival is always a wonderful experience, and season six, which was held June 8th through 11th this year, 2017, was no exception. |
| 0:47.5 | As usual, Austin was the place to be for TV fans who got panels and programming of current series like the Americans, |
| 0:54.8 | a billion dollar properties, and the Mick, |
| 0:57.0 | reunions of Northern Exposure, Battlestar Galactica, |
| 0:59.9 | the shows of Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, and others, |
| 1:03.2 | and panels on topics ranging from first gigs and big breaks to TV under Trump. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm going to bring you recordings of a whole lot of these panels, |
| 1:11.9 | and today's episode is one of them. |
| 1:14.1 | ATX itself is putting up video of many of the events, |
| 1:17.3 | and you can find those at atelvisionexperience.com. |
| 1:22.0 | They'll also soon offer podcasts, |
| 1:23.7 | both ones you'll find here and recordings exclusive to the ATX podcast feed at a |
| 1:29.5 | television experience.com slash podcasts check that out in the coming months in the meantime |
| 1:35.3 | first of all go get tickets to season seven of the ATX television festival it's June |
| 1:42.2 | 7th through 10th 2018 and as, it'll be a special TV experience. |
| 1:48.4 | And now, enjoy today's episode. |
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