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The Writers Panel

The definitive insider's guide to our current golden age of television, Ben Blacker's The Writers Panel is an ever expanding anthology of live convention panels and intimate in-studio interviews with the writers, producers, and show runners responsible for all the shows you can't stop watching. Over the course of nearly 500 episodes and counting, The Writers Panel has sat across from guests such as Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad), Amy Sherman-Palladino (Gilmore Girls, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele (Key and Peele), Liz Meriwether (New Girl), and Damon Lindelof (Lost, The Leftovers) to talk about the art and business of creating great television.

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Update frequency
every 10 days
Average duration
65 minutes
Episodes
624
Years Active
2011 - 2025
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Development Executives

Development Executives

Joanna Klein (The CW), Kathleen McCaffrey (HBO), Grant Gish (Fox Animation), Bryan Seabury (CBS), and Brendan Countee (Hulu) discuss their role in getting an episode from pilot script to production t…

01:05:44  |   Tue 23 Aug 2016
Jeff Baena

Jeff Baena

The writer/director of Joshy and Life After Beth talks about his new movie, his process, his script for I Heart Huckabees, and more.


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00:51:03  |   Sat 20 Aug 2016
Jessica Sharzer

Jessica Sharzer

The screenwriter of Nerve, Speak, and other features, as well as American Horror Story writer and producer, discusses writing and directing, presenting psychological states in scripts, her process, h…

00:54:57  |   Tue 16 Aug 2016
Pulp Page to TV Panel

Pulp Page to TV Panel

Javier Grillo-Marxuach (creator, The Middleman), Brian Michael Bendis (creator of Jessica Jones and Powers), and Rosemary Rodriguez (director, Jessica Jones) discuss how a storyteller infuses his or …

00:58:35  |   Tue 09 Aug 2016
David Simon and Tom Fontana

David Simon and Tom Fontana

After more than a decade of reporting crime from the streets of Baltimore, how did a career journalist like David Simon learn to navigate a TV writers room? The outcome was in no small part due to th…

00:55:14  |   Tue 02 Aug 2016
Alan Ball

Alan Ball

The creator of Six Feet Under and True Blood discusses the creation of his seminal HBO series, exploring death, working with actors, swinging 180 degrees for his vampire soap opera, writing American …

01:11:51  |   Tue 26 Jul 2016
Norman Lear

Norman Lear

Norman Lear (creator of All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Good Times, Maude, One Day at a Time, and more) is interviewed by Katey Sagal (actor, Married with Children, Sons of Anarchy) following a sc…

01:48:51  |   Tue 19 Jul 2016
Brad Meltzer and Tod Goldberg

Brad Meltzer and Tod Goldberg

The best-selling authors of House of Secrets discuss what each of them brings to their co-writing, learning from each other, comic books, and more.


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01:13:54  |   Tue 12 Jul 2016
The Writers Guild of America

The Writers Guild of America

WGA vice-president David Goodman (Family Guy) and David Slack (Person of Interest; Teen Titans Go!) take a good look at the Writers Guild and discuss why writers need a union, what the union does, wh…

00:58:51  |   Tue 05 Jul 2016
David Mandel

David Mandel

The showrunner of Veep discusses taking over those duties in the just-aired season 5, early writing opportunities with Al Franken, his three years on Saturday Night Live, his time on Seinfeld, script…

01:21:41  |   Tue 28 Jun 2016
Conan Writers

Conan Writers

Head writer Matt O'Brien, Mike Sweeney, Todd Levin, Dan Cronin, Jessie Gaskill, Jose Arroyo, Leah Krinsky, Levi MacDougall, and Andres Dubouchet.

Recorded April 14, 2016 at the Nerdist Theater at Mel…

01:25:36  |   Tue 14 Jun 2016
Joe Pokaski, Mike O'Malley, Stephnie Weir, and Hugh Sterbakov

Joe Pokaski, Mike O'Malley, Stephnie Weir, and Hugh Sterbakov

Joe Pokaski (creator, Underground), Mike O'Malley (Shameless; creator, Survivor's Remorse), Stephnie Weir (MadTV; The Millers), and Hugh Sterbakov (Robot Chicken). Recorded April 24, 2016 at the Nerd…

01:30:11  |   Tue 07 Jun 2016
Chris Black

Chris Black

The showrunner of Cinemax's Outcast (based on the Robert Kirkman comics) talks about his start in syndicated shows like Weird Science, Cleopatra 2525, and Xena, his work on Star Trek: Enterprise, mov…

01:12:38  |   Tue 31 May 2016
Claudia Lonow

Claudia Lonow

The creator of Rude Awakening, Accidentally on Purpose, and How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life) discusses starting out as a teen actor on Knots Landing, transitioning to stand-u…

01:09:44  |   Tue 24 May 2016
Shane Black

Shane Black

The writer-director-Christmas enthusiast, whose new film The Nice Guys opens May 20, discusses his interests and process, being called a hack, success and failure, and all of his films, including Let…

01:31:04  |   Tue 17 May 2016
“Behind Every TV Show” from Wondercon

“Behind Every TV Show” from Wondercon

Allison Baker (IDW Comics) hosts Emily Andras (creator, Wynonna Earp; Lost Girls), Amber Benson (actor, Buffy The Vampire Slayer; author, The Last Dreamkeeper), Deirdre Mangan (writer, iZombie), and …

00:52:45  |   Sat 14 May 2016
Nicholas Stoller

Nicholas Stoller

The director/co-writer of Neighbors 2, director and/or co-writer of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, The Five Year Engagement, Get Him to the Greek, and The Muppets, among others, discusses his start in TV…

01:04:35  |   Tue 10 May 2016
“Writing for TV: From First Draft to Getting Staffed” from Wondercon

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

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), …

00:57:17  |   Sat 07 May 2016
FILTHY PREPPY TEEN$

FILTHY PREPPY TEEN$

Filthy Preppy Teen$ co-creator Paul Scheer and writersTim Neenan (Newsreaders) and Nicole Shabtai (KirbyBuckets) discuss the new series now available on FullScreen,working on a small budget, parody, …

01:06:02  |   Tue 03 May 2016
“Inside the Writers' Room” from Wondercon

“Inside the Writers' Room” from Wondercon

Mark Altman (creator, Femme Fatales) hosts Jose Molina(Agent Carter; Firefly), Steven Melching (Star Wars:Rebels), Sarah Watson (Parenthood), Ashley Miller(Thor; X-Men: First Class), Amy Berg (Counte…

00:50:48  |   Sat 30 Apr 2016
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