“The Revival of the Socially Conscious Sitcom” from ATX
The Writers Panel
Ben Blacker
4.7 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2018
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Bob Daily (Superior Donuts), Justin Simien (creator, Dear White People), Mike Royce and Gloria Calderon Kellett (creators, One Day at a Time), and Danielle Sanchez-Witzel (The Carmichael Show) discuss taking their inspiration from Norman Lear and incorporating issues and debates that are meant to challenge and teach. From race to gender, and politics to religion, these sitcom writers achieve bigger conversations about issues that make a difference in your life, while still making you laugh. Moderated by CNN's Sandra Gonzalez.
Recorded at ATX Television Festival on June 10, 2017.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi guys, it's me, Ben Blacker, the creator and host of this show. Before we get started, |
| 0:04.9 | I want to tell you about the next live show I have going on. It's Dead Pilot Society on Saturday, |
| 0:11.2 | June 23rd at the Dynasty Typewriter Theater. Dead Pilot Society, as you know, is the live show and |
| 0:18.2 | podcast series where we take pilots that have been bought and developed |
| 0:21.8 | but never shot and give them the table reads they so richly deserve there are no notes |
| 0:27.8 | no one gets fired and everyone has a good time on june 23rd we have three really great scripts |
| 0:33.7 | that are going to be a lot of fun to listen to. We have a script by Dan Harmon and |
| 0:38.7 | Chris McKenna of community, of course, a script by Genji Cohen, creator of Orange is the |
| 0:44.4 | New Black and Weeds. Also, she's the owner of the Dynasty Typewriter Theater. And a script by |
| 0:49.6 | Patrick Schumacher and Justin Halpern, the guy behind shit my dad says, and they're running a new |
| 0:54.3 | Harley Quinn animated series. All three of these scripts should be a lot of fun. We're going to get |
| 0:58.8 | some great cast. We already have some people confirmed, which I will tell you about as we get |
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| 1:26.5 | Forever! |
| 1:28.5 | Today we have another great recording. DynastyTyperider.com. Hope to see you there. Forever! Dog! |
| 1:29.7 | Today we have another great recording from last year's ATX Television Festival. |
| 1:34.7 | In anticipation of this year's ATX Television Festival, |
| 1:38.3 | which starts next month, June 7th through 10th in Austin, |
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