Writers Assistants
The Writers Panel
Ben Blacker
4.7 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2016
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Megan Metzger (When Calls the Heart), Dave Metzger (The Blacklist), Joelle Cornett (Pure Genius), Charlotte Lewis (Faking It), and Jake Thomas (Notorious) discuss what the job entails, how they got their jobs, the best rooms, and the odd place a writers' assistant holds in a writers' room.
Recorded on September 11, 2016 at Nerdmelt Theater.
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| 0:00.0 | On the first day of Christmas my true love said to me, rip up the charades, forget about the |
| 0:06.9 | telly, let's play scratch cards, coins are to stretching, everybody laughing, better not be cheating, |
| 0:15.4 | and the chance to win a pound or three. Add some play to Christmas with scratch cards from the national lottery. Please gift |
| 0:23.1 | responsibly. Rules and procedures apply. Players and gifters must be 18 or over. And the chance to win a pound or three. |
| 0:34.1 | Now entering nerdist.com. Greetings, adventure, cateers.'s me, Wirtuous Player, Hal Lublin. You may have heard rumors of the thrilling adventure hours doing a holiday show at the theater at the Ace Hotel in LA on December 17th. Those rumors are true. And what you may not have heard is that that December 17th show is our final show before going on an indefinite hiatus. |
| 0:55.3 | Yep. That December 17th show at the Ace will be the last new Beyond Belief, the last |
| 1:00.4 | new sparks Nevada, the last of everything for a very long time. Now look, we all love doing |
| 1:05.7 | the show, but the cast and everyone else has got deservedly busy over the past couple |
| 1:10.3 | years. And Wallacker and Blacker have enjoyed stretching the boundaries of what a thrilling adventure hour can be since ending the monthly show in 2015, it's time for a good long break. |
| 1:19.6 | So please join us on December 17th at the Theater at the Ace Hotel for a farewell appearance. |
| 1:24.7 | The Ace is a beautiful, big theater, and we want to fill it with enthusiastic adventure |
| 1:28.8 | cateers, the fans who mean so much to us. |
| 1:31.6 | You can find the link for tickets on all of our social media that's at Thrilling ADV on |
| 1:35.5 | Twitter, on Facebook and at workjuice.tumler.com or by searching the Ace Hotel |
| 1:41.6 | Calendar. |
| 1:42.4 | And now, please enjoy this all-new episode. |
| 1:47.2 | Now entering nerdist.com. |
| 1:50.3 | Welcome to the Writers Panel. |
| 1:51.9 | I'm Ben Blacker, the creator and moderator of the podcast. |
| 1:54.7 | I created the show because I wanted to talk to writers about the business and process of writing. |
| 1:59.5 | I've had more than 400 writers on the show, so go back and check the archives. |
| 2:03.4 | I'm sure you'll find more creators and more shows that you're interested in. |
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