“Writing for TV: From First Draft to Getting Staffed” from Wondercon

The Writers Panel

Ben Blacker

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

4.7 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Spiro Skentzos (Grimm) hosts Glen Mazzara (The Walking Dead; creator, Damien), Richard Hatem (Dead of Summer; Damien; Witches of East End), Meredith Averill (Jane the Virgin; creator, Star-Crossed), Natalie Chaidez (12 Monkeys; Hunters; Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles).

Recorded at WonderCon in Los Angeles on March 26, 2016.

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0:00.0	Now entering Nurdist.com.
0:04.8	Today's episode was recorded at WonderCon in 2016.
0:11.0	Enormous thanks to all of the panelists, to the hosts who ran the panels, who allowed me to record these.
0:18.6	Also thanks to Katie and Aristotle at Nerdist,
0:21.4	who ran around recording these for me.
0:23.5	These are some really cool panels.
0:24.9	I think you guys will enjoy them.
0:27.5	It's the Nerdist Writers Panel,
0:29.4	and it's hosted by Ben Blacker,
0:30.6	where he gets a bunch of writers,
0:31.8	and he asks him lots of questions,
0:33.0	and it's starting now,
0:33.7	so this will be the end of the theme.
0:36.0	I think to get started,
0:37.4	then we can talk now's a good time
0:38.8	to talk about getting your script read and whatnot because it is staffing season's coming up and i wonder if
0:43.8	one of you guys want to kind of talk us through a calendar year on how staffing works and kind of the
0:49.0	glamorous part of getting staffed on the show like Like now it's coming up for staffing season,
0:54.9	scripts are getting read.
0:57.1	It starts when your show gets picked up.
1:00.0	Immediately the phone will start ringing,
1:01.9	and emails will start coming in from agents, managers,
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