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The Writers Panel

Ratings, Recaps, Reviews panel from ATX

The Writers Panel

Ben Blacker

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

4.7796 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2014

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Kyle Killen (Awake; Lone Star) knows more about ratings than he cares to, and he's going to break it down for you starting with who, what, when, where, or IF watching matters. Dissecting Neilsen, DVRs, live viewing, social media, and streaming, hell answer questions like: What's a share? How everyone you know can be talking, tweeting and watching a show, but it still gets canceled? And why do ratings equal cancellation on one network but a hit on another? Following his 15 minute presentation, Killen sits down with top critics Alan Sepinwall (Hitfix), Matthew Zoller Seitz (Vulture), Todd Vanderwerff (A.V. Club), and Tara Ariano (Previously.tv) to discuss TV's growth in the past decade, where its going, and their contributions to a show's fate.


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0:00.0

Now entering nerdist.com.

0:05.0

Today's Nerdist Writers panel was recorded at ATX Television Festival in Austin.

0:09.8

That's Austin's best television festival.

0:12.7

No offense, none taken.

0:14.8

Badges are already on sale for next year's festival,

0:17.7

and I know they have some amazing things being cooked up.

0:21.6

It'll be hard to top this year's festival which boasted screenings and guests from

0:26.6

Orange is the New Black and the Strain and Fargo and kind of everything great.

0:32.6

Andy Daley's review, all kinds of terrific things.

0:36.6

But they are going to indeed try to top it and there's going to be lots of cool stuff next year,

0:42.4

starting on June 4th, I believe.

0:45.4

Go to ATXFestival.com.

0:50.3

It's the nerd is writers panel and is hosted by Ben Blacker, where he gets a bunch of and he asks him lots of questions and it's starting now so this will be the end of the theme.

0:58.5

That's it.

0:59.0

Kyle Killen.

1:00.6

All right.

1:01.9

Your ratings determine whether or not you get into a good college or end up living in your parents' basement.

1:06.4

So given their power to alter the fate of your favorite show, I want to try to talk quickly about

1:12.9

how they work, how they fail, and how they're going to have to change. So before we can do that,

1:18.2

we kind of have to remind ourselves how television comes to exist. Basically, there are three ways.

1:24.2

One, you pay for it. Two, someone else pays for it. Or three, a combination of you and

1:29.5

someone else pays for it. So someone else pays for it is the broadcast model that you're all

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