Gloria Calderón Kellett (One Day at a Time) answers questions from DePaul University writing students as part of a class on TV showrunners. LISTEN TO THE WRITERS PANEL AD-FREE ON FOREVER DOG PLUS: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plu s CONNECT W/ BEN BLACKER & THE WRITER'S PANEL ON SOCIAL MEDIA https://twitter.com/BENBLACKER https://www.facebook.com/TVWritersPanel THE WRITER'S PANEL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/the-writers-panel/ Learn more about your ad cho...
Jun 16, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 464
Blow the Man Down is an absolutely terrific blackly comic thriller available right now on Amazon Prime. Its mastery of tone and evocative location is impressive, especially considering it's the debut feature for Bridget Savage Cole & Danielle Krudy. In today's episode, they discuss how they did it. LISTEN TO THE WRITERS PANEL AD-FREE ON FOREVER DOG PLUS: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plu s CONNECT W/ BEN BLACKER & THE WRITER'S PANEL ON SOCIAL MEDIA https://twitter.com/BENBLACKER https:/...
Jun 03, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 463
Ben Blacker is joined by co-host J. Holtham ( Supergirl ) to talk to Nathaniel Halpern ( Legion ), creator of Amazon's new Tales from the Loop . They discuss how quickly Halpern cracked the translation of artist Simon Stålenhag's paintings, the tone of the show, building characters, and more. LISTEN TO THE WRITERS PANEL AD-FREE ON FOREVER DOG PLUS: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plu s CONNECT W/ BEN BLACKER & THE WRITER'S PANEL ON SOCIAL MEDIA https://twitter.com/BENBLACKER https://www.faceb...
May 26, 2020•48 min•Ep. 462
Ben talks to Alena Smith (creator, Dickinson) and Tony McNamara (creator, The Great) about revolutionizing the TV period drama with their innovative takes on Emily Dickinson and Catherine the Great. LISTEN TO THE WRITERS PANEL AD-FREE ON FOREVER DOG PLUS: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plu s CONNECT W/ BEN BLACKER & THE WRITER'S PANEL ON SOCIAL MEDIA https://twitter.com/BENBLACKER https://www.facebook.com/TVWritersPanel THE WRITER'S PANEL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.c...
May 12, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 461
Survivor premiered 20 years ago this week and has been a ratings juggernaut and CBS stalwart since, heading into its season 40 finale this month. Host Ben Blacker is a big fan of the series and, specifically, of host and showrunner Jeff Probst and his intuitive, empathetic, and conversational interview style. In 2016, Blacker got the opportunity to sit down with Probst to talk about showrunning, storytelling in the non-scripted medium, Probst's YA book "Stranded," and lots more. Originally aired...
May 05, 2020•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 460
Being a boss, quarantine hacks and exciting new technology with Dana Fox (co-creator, Home Before Dark); Jeffrey Howard (The Haunting of Hill House; Midnight Mass); Jessica Amento (upcoming: creator, Obsessed). FOLLOW THE GUESTS ON TWITTER: Dana Fox: http://twitter.com/inthehenhouse Jeffrey Howard: http://twitter.com/jeffreyhoward33 Jessica Amento: https://twitter.com/JessicaAmento LISTEN TO THE WRITERS PANEL AD-FREE ON FOREVER DOG PLUS: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plu s CONNECT W/ BEN BLACKE...
Apr 28, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 459
Old sample scripts with Liz Benjamin (What/If; Man in the High Castle; 13 Reasons Why); Jessica Gao (Rick and Morty; upcoming: She Hulk); Micah Schraft (Mrs. America; Jane the Virgin; Jessica Jones) FOLLOW THE GUESTS ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/lizbenjamin https://twitter.com/ChairmanGao LISTEN TO THE WRITERS PANEL AD-FREE ON FOREVER DOG PLUS: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plu s CONNECT W/ BEN BLACKER & THE WRITER'S PANEL ON SOCIAL MEDIA https://twitter.com/BENBLACKER https://www.facebo...
Apr 21, 2020•58 min•Ep. 458
LISTEN TO THE WRITERS PANEL AD-FREE ON FOREVER DOG PLUS: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plu s CONNECT W/ BEN BLACKER & THE WRITER'S PANEL ON SOCIAL MEDIA https://twitter.com/BENBLACKER https://www.facebook.com/TVWritersPanel THE WRITER'S PANEL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/the-writers-panel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 07, 2020•41 min•Ep. 457
Pilot limbo and cancellation heartbreak with David Hemingson (creator, Whiskey Cavalier, Kitchen Confidential); Carla Kettner (The Blacklist; Bones); Jenna Lamia (Good Girls; Awkward) FOLLOW THE GUESTS ON TWITTER: David Hemingson (@DavidHemingson) Carla Kettner (@ckettner) Jenna Lamia (@JennaLamia) LISTEN TO THE WRITERS PANEL AD-FREE ON FOREVER DOG PLUS: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plu s CONNECT W/ BEN BLACKER & THE WRITER'S PANEL ON SOCIAL MEDIA https://twitter.com/BENBLACKER https://www...
Mar 31, 2020•50 min•Ep. 456
Getting it on the page and turning it in with Michael Grassi (creator, Katy Keene); Michael Waldron (upcoming: Loki; Rick and Morty); Nico Raineau & Lauren Schacher (director/co-writers, Hooking Up) FOLLOW THE GUESTS ON TWITTER: Michael Grassi (@thatthingofwhen) Michael Waldron (@michaeljwaldron) Nico Raineau (@NicoRaineau) Lauren Schacher https://www.instagram.com/lschac LISTEN TO THE WRITERS PANEL AD-FREE ON FOREVER DOG PLUS: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plu s CONNECT W/ BEN BLACKER &...
Mar 24, 2020•49 min•Ep. 455
The writers of "Little Fires Everywhere" (Liz Tigelaar, Nancy Won, Raamla Mohamed, Attica Locke, Harris Danow, Shannon Houston, Amy Talkington, Rosa Handelman) sat down with Ben a year ago before production began to talk about adapting the 2017 novel into a Hulu series. FOLLOW THE GUESTS ON TWITTER: Liz Tigelaar (@liztigelaar) Nancy Won (@nancywon) Raamla Mohamed (@dramaraamla) Attica Locke (@atticalocke) Shannon Houston (@shannonmhouston) Amy Talkington (@amytalkington) LISTEN TO THE WRITERS PA...
Mar 17, 2020•58 min•Ep. 454
As we reach the end of Schitt's Creek, the scrappy, addictive, charmball of a show, enjoy this throwback episode from 2016, just before season 2, in which co-creator Dan Levy discusses being a first-time showrunner, creating a happy work environment, learning from his father Eugene Levy, and more. LISTEN TO THE WRITERS PANEL AD-FREE ON FOREVER DOG PLUS: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plu s CONNECT W/ BEN BLACKER & THE WRITER'S PANEL ON SOCIAL MEDIA https://twitter.com/BENBLACKER https://www....
Mar 10, 2020•51 min•Ep. 453
Finding the right opportunity with Pamela Ribon (Moana; Ralph Breaks the Internet); Mark Fergus (creator, The Expanse; Children of Men; Iron Man); JD Dillard (Sweetheart; Sleight). Conversations with Mark Frost is a new book out via https://www.fayettevillemafiapress.com/ that listeners to this podcast, and TV fans in general, will love. Visit the website and pick it up! FOLLOW THE GUESTS ON TWITTER: Pamela Ribon https://twitter.com/pamelaribon Mark Fergus https://twitter.com/TheExpanseWR JD Dil...
Mar 03, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 452
Better Call Saul is back! The new season began this week on AMC. What better time to revisit co-creator/showrunner Peter Gould, co-creator Vince Gilligan, writer/producers Thomas Schnauz and Gordon Smith, along with then-Breaking Bad writer/producers George Mastras, Sam Catlin, Gennifer Hutchison, and Moira Walley-Beckett as they looked back at the pivotal penultimate season of Breaking Bad in 2012? The Bad/Saul rooms have been instructive and fascinating, changing very little in their process o...
Feb 25, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 451
Creating and following through on ground-breaking television with Mark Frost (co-creator, Twin Peaks), Steven Canals (co-creator, Pose), Harley Peyton (Project Blue Book; Channel Zero; upcoming: Child's Play). Conversations with Mark Frost is a new book out via https://www.fayettevillemafiapress.com/ that listeners to this podcast, and TV fans in general, will love. Visit the website and pick it up! FOLLOW THE GUESTS ON TWITTER: Mark Frost https://twitter.com/mfrost11 Steven Canals https://twitt...
Feb 18, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 450
Show-running and failed networks with Ilana Pea (creator, Diary of a Future President), Joshua Safran (creator, Soundtrack) and Maggie Levin (My Valentine). FOLLOW THE GUESTS ON TWITTER: Ilana Pea https://twitter.com/ilanacubana Joshua Safran https://twitter.com/Anthologist Maggie Levin https://twitter.com/MaggieLevin LISTEN TO THE WRITERS PANEL AD-FREE ON FOREVER DOG PLUS: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plu s CONNECT W/ BEN BLACKER & THE WRITER'S PANEL ON SOCIAL MEDIA https://twitter.com/BE...
Feb 11, 2020•51 min•Ep. 449
"Cut and Run" is a new Audible Original series available now! http://bit.ly/CutRunAudible It's about best friends who are kidney thieves and the havoc that wreaks on their relationships. The series stars Meg Ryan (When Harry Met Sally...), D'Arcy Carden (The Good Place), Sam Richardson (Veep), Thomas Lennon (Reno 911), Rachel Bloom (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), and lots more. Listen now! FOLLOW THE GUESTS ON TWITTER: Ben Acker (co-creator and co-showrunner with Ben Blacker!) https://twitter.com/bnacker...
Feb 04, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 448
Breaking into the business through contests and fellowships with Bo Yeon Kim & Erika Lippoldt (Star Trek: Discovery; Reign); Zahir McGhee (Stumptown; For the People); Taylor Cox (Single Parents; Abby's). LISTEN TO THE WRITERS PANEL AD-FREE ON FOREVER DOG PLUS: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plu s CONNECT W/ BEN BLACKER & THE WRITER'S PANEL ON SOCIAL MEDIA https://twitter.com/BENBLACKER https://www.facebook.com/TVWritersPanel THE WRITER'S PANEL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogpr...
Jan 28, 2020•48 min•Ep. 447
As we near the end of the brilliant "The Good Place," look forward to the premiere of Netflix's anticipated "Locke & Key," and marvel at the height of ABC sitcom "Single Parents," revisit the first appearance of Writers Panel favorites Michael Schur, Carlton Cuse, and J.J. Philbin. Recorded in April 2013, this episode features Schur who, at the time, was best known as the co-creator of "Parks & Recreation" with "Brooklyn 99" awaiting pick-up by Fox. Cuse was everywhere post-"Lost", execu...
Jan 21, 2020•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 446
Paul Tremblay is the author of the horror novels The Cabin at the End of the World , Disappearance at Devils Rock and A Head Full of Ghosts, and the short story collection Growing Things. He has a masters degree in mathematics and teaches high school AP Calculus. Paul sat down in a quiet coffeeshop with a loud bar attached to talk about horror, his writing process, rejection, math, and lots more. LISTEN TO THE WRITERS PANEL AD-FREE ON FOREVER DOG PLUS: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plu s CONNEC...
Jan 14, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 445
Jennifer Kaytin Robinson is the writer/director of "Someone Great," a movie everyone who enjoys movies ought to see. Having learned the ropes as the creator/co-showrunner of MTV's "Sweet/Vicious," Jenn turned her hand to directing a personal story that's warm, funny, charming, and brimming with truth. Watch "Someone Great" on Netflix. LISTEN TO THE WRITERS PANEL AD-FREE ON FOREVER DOG PLUS: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plu s CONNECT W/ BEN BLACKER & THE WRITER'S PANEL ON SOCIAL MEDIA https...
Dec 17, 2019•54 min•Ep. 444
Alexandra Kleeman is the author of Intimations , a short story collection, and the novel You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine , which was awarded the 2016 Bard Fiction Prize. She is an Assistant Professor at the New School and her second novel, Something New Under the Sun, is forthcoming from Hogarth Press. Alexandra sat down outside of a busy coffeeshop near Central Park to talk about being trapped in our own bodies, her process, teaching creative writing, and more. LISTEN TO THE WRITERS PANEL AD-...
Dec 10, 2019•59 min•Ep. 443
LISTEN TO THE WRITERS PANEL AD-FREE ON FOREVER DOG PLUS: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plu s CONNECT W/ BEN BLACKER & THE WRITER'S PANEL ON SOCIAL MEDIA https://twitter.com/BENBLACKER https://www.facebook.com/TVWritersPanel THE WRITER'S PANEL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/the-writers-panel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nov 19, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 442
The perfect writers' room lunch order and the psychology of pitch approval with Mark Verheiden (creator, Swamp Thing; Daredevil; Battlestar Galactica); Dayna Lynne North (Insecure; Veronica Mars); Tamara Becher (Doom Patrol; Covert Affairs); Kai Yu Wu (creator, Ghost Bride; The Flash) LISTEN TO THE WRITERS PANEL AD-FREE ON FOREVER DOG PLUS: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plu s CONNECT W/ BEN BLACKER & THE WRITER'S PANEL ON SOCIAL MEDIA https://twitter.com/BENBLACKER https://www.facebook.com/...
Nov 05, 2019•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 441
What does it take to run a writers' room? Megan Martin (creator, Apple+'s Brie Larson CIA show; Animal Kingdom); Diane Ademu-John (Empire; The Originals); and Ian Deitchman (Carnival Row; Suits; Parenthood) talk show-running and transitioning from features to TV to streaming. LISTEN TO THE WRITERS PANEL AD-FREE ON FOREVER DOG PLUS: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plu s CONNECT W/ BEN BLACKER & THE WRITER'S PANEL ON SOCIAL MEDIA https://twitter.com/BENBLACKER https://www.facebook.com/TVWriters...
Oct 22, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 440
Recorded at San Diego Comic Con, July 19, 2019: Writing the Rules of Magic panel w/ Deric Hughes (Arrow; The Flash), Jose Molina (Magic: The Gathering; The Tick), Gennifer Hutchison (Breaking Bad; The Strain), Kieron Gillen (The Wicked & the Divine; DIE), Julie Benson & Shawna Benson (Wu Assassins; The 100), Sarah Kuhn (Heroine Complex), Chris Dingess (Doom Patrol; Agent Carter), Adam Rogers (Wired magazine). LISTEN TO THE WRITERS PANEL AD-FREE ON FOREVER DOG PLUS: https://foreverdogpodc...
Oct 08, 2019•50 min•Ep. 439
The writers and showrunner of Shudder's new CREEPSHOW series...Greg Nicotero (showrunner; co-wrote the story Lydia Laynes Better Half), Rob Schrab (wrote the story Bad Wolf Down), Byron Willinger & Philip De Blasi (adapted the Stephen King story Gray Matter), and Brian Witten (executive producer). LISTEN TO THE WRITERS PANEL AD-FREE ON FOREVER DOG PLUS: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plu s CONNECT W/ BEN BLACKER & THE WRITER'S PANEL ON SOCIAL MEDIA https://twitter.com/BENBLACKER https://...
Sep 24, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 438
Sunil Nayar ( The Red Line; All Rise ); Erin Maher and Kay Reindl ( Swamp Thing; Scream ); Shoshana Sachi ( Doom Patrol ) LISTEN TO THE WRITERS PANEL AD-FREE ON FOREVER DOG PLUS: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plu s CONNECT W/ BEN BLACKER & THE WRITER'S PANEL ON SOCIAL MEDIA https://twitter.com/BENBLACKER https://www.facebook.com/TVWritersPanel THE WRITER'S PANEL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/the-writers-panel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...
Sep 10, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 437
WGA board candidates: Robb Chavis ( black-ish; Superior Donuts ); Liz Alper ( The Rookie; Hawaii 5-0 ); Zoe Marshall ( Charmed ); Dante Harper ( Alien: Covenant ) LISTEN TO THE WRITERS PANEL AD-FREE ON FOREVER DOG PLUS: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plu s CONNECT W/ BEN BLACKER & THE WRITER'S PANEL ON SOCIAL MEDIA https://twitter.com/BENBLACKER https://www.facebook.com/TVWritersPanel THE WRITER'S PANEL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/the-writers-panel Learn ...
Aug 29, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 436
WGA issues with WGA President David Goodman ( Family Guy; The Orville ); Vice President Marjorie David ( Taken; Brothers and Sisters ); and board member/Secretary-Treasurer candidate Michele Mulroney ( Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows ) LISTEN TO THE WRITERS PANEL AD-FREE ON FOREVER DOG PLUS: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plu s CONNECT W/ BEN BLACKER & THE WRITER'S PANEL ON SOCIAL MEDIA https://twitter.com/BENBLACKER https://www.facebook.com/TVWritersPanel THE WRITER'S PANEL IS A FOREVER DO...
Aug 27, 2019•54 min•Ep. 435
