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

The best television festival in Austin?

Or anywhere.

It really is fun. If you guys haven't been to ATX, what's stopping you?

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

You can go to ATXFestival.com to get badges.

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

a whole thing, a whole conversation with Freeform about the sort of shows they're doing and

millennial programming. They They got folks from Queen Sugar

coming. They've got folks from drunk history doing an interactive panel. The new audience network

Condor, based on three days of the Condor, there's a TV show. And that's going to be there.

American woman, a whole bunch of really cool things. So that's the stuff that's already announced. There's even more great

stuff coming. Once again, it is June 7th through 10th in Austin, ATXFestival.com to get badges which do it

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you know Good, good. I'm Natalie Abrams, senior writer at Entertainment Weekly, and I love television.

TV has this unique ability to make you feel like characters are speaking directly to you,

going through the same experiences as you and helping you navigate those murky waters

along the way. Shows are able to do that most of the time because writers are drawing from

their own experiences. From heartbreak to death, dating, illnesses, missed opportunities.

Writers are always encouraged to write what they know because that experience means they have a

deep well to draw from.

So we've gathered a great panel of writers and executive producers to get the scoop on the challenges of drawing from their own lives. So from the middleman, the hundred and lost,

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