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The Writers Panel

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The Writers Panel

Ben Blacker

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

4.7796 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2014

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

The creator of WGN's terrific series Manhattan talks about his inspiration for the show, relationships with writers, balancing his characters' stories with historical fact, what he learned from working on Masters of Sex, and lots more.


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0:00.0

Now entering nerdist.com.

0:04.9

Hey folks, it's me, Ben Blacker, the creator and moderator of the nerdist writers panel.

0:08.9

I am so excited to be in New York right now, as you're listening to this, on the 7th of October, a Tuesday.

0:16.7

I'm doing all kinds of live nerdist writers panels this week, and they're really cool,

0:22.7

and I hope you will join us for them.

0:24.6

There are still tickets to a lot of them.

0:27.6

Tomorrow night, October 8th, 6 p.m.

0:30.4

I know 6 p.m. is weird on a Wednesday, but let's do it anyway, because I've got a nerdist

0:36.5

comics panel with my co-host Heath Corson.

0:39.6

We've got Charles Sewell, who's writing The Death of Wolverine, he's writing Sheeulk, he's writing Swamp Thing, he's writing everything, and just signed exclusive with Marvel, which is pretty neat.

0:51.1

We'll talk about that.

0:52.1

And then Jerry Duggan, who is doing an incredible job on Deadpool lately.

0:56.0

He's also writing Batman Arkham Manor, which looks like an amazing book.

1:01.0

That's tomorrow night at 6 p.m. at Rock Bar in New York.

1:06.0

Those guys are going to bring some variant cover editions of their book,

1:10.0

some rare variants, to give away

1:12.3

if you come to that panel. And again, that's tomorrow at Rockbar. You can find a link for tickets

1:19.6

at facebook.com slash nerdist writers panel or at the website thrillingadventurehour.com. On Thursday, October 9th at 7 p.m. in Soho at the

1:30.7

Housing Works bookstore. We've got Danny Strong, who is writing the Hunger Games Mocking

1:35.8

Jay, parts one and two adaptations. Danny also wrote recount, and he was in Buffy, the Vampire

1:43.0

Slyar. He was one of the trio, one of those evil dudes.

1:47.5

So we'll talk about all that stuff. It should be really fun. Danny's a great guy. He's done

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