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The Writers Panel

"Presidents of TV" from ATX

The Writers Panel

Ben Blacker

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

4.7796 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Craig Erwich (Hulu), Jennifer Salke (NBC), Casey Bloys (HBO), Nick Grad (FX), and Gary Levine (Showtime) discuss how their networks forge individual paths in a time of "Peak TV," their decisions behind which and how many series to order, balancing their brands while growing their audiences, and more. Moderated by Debra Birnbaum (Variety).

Recorded at ATX Television Festival on June 9, 2017.

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0:00.0

Hey, this is the first of the last batch of recordings from last year's ATX Television Festival.

0:07.3

The best television festival in Austin or anywhere.

0:11.6

It really is fun if you guys haven't been to ATX.

0:14.7

What's stopping you?

0:16.5

This year it is June 7th through 10th in Austin.

0:20.4

You can go to ATXFestival.com to get badges.

0:25.9

They've already announced a whole bunch of awesome things for this year's lineup,

0:30.2

including a whole thing, a whole conversation with Freeform

0:33.8

about the sort of shows they're doing and millennial programming.

0:38.4

They got folks from Queen Sugar coming.

0:40.7

They've got folks from drunk history doing an interactive panel.

0:44.9

The new audience network, Condor, based on three days of the Condor, there's a TV show.

0:53.1

And that's going to be there.

0:55.0

American Woman, a whole bunch of really cool things.

0:58.2

So that's the stuff that's already announced.

1:00.4

There's even more great stuff coming.

1:02.8

Once again, it is June 7th through 10th in Austin, ATXFestival.com to get badges, which do it. So I'm going to go ahead and introduce Deborah Burnbaum, who is going to moderate,

1:51.0

and she's going to introduce our panelists.

1:57.0

Hi, oh my God, hi everyone. How are you doing? Well, I don't think you're here to see me, but I'm very excited to talk about not the president,

2:04.4

because I think we've had more than enough talk about that president.

2:07.9

So let's talk about the other presidents, the presidents we like.

2:12.1

Let's do.

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