Deadline Strike Talk

Week Ten with guests Courtney Kemp, Nkechi Okoro Carroll, Sera Gamble, and Greg Berlanti

Jul 7, 2023

50:16

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Introduction

5min

How I Learned to Run a TV Show

2min

How I Learned to Run a Room

2min

How I Learned to Write for Pay

3min

How to Be a Show Runner

6min

The Dynamic of a Writers' Room

2min

The Importance of a Full Writers Room

3min

The Pressure to Slack Your Writers Room

3min

How to Promote the Room's Get Bigger Year on Year

4min

10.

The Health of the Showrunner

5min

11.

The Importance of Saying No

2min

12.

The Importance of Writers Rooms in Television

2min

13.

The Importance of Respecting the Integrity of Writing

2min

14.

White Lotus One, Two or Three by Yourself

2min

15.

The Guild's Waiver of Writers Rooms

4min

16.

The Importance of Caretaker

2min

Writers' rooms are the pipelines of talent that turn rookies into SHOWRUNNERS.

On episode 10 of Strike Talk, Billy hears the stories of Courtney Kemp, Nkechi Okoro Carroll, Sera Gamble, and Greg Berlanti to learn how growing up in a writers' room turned them into the profit-generating superstars they are today.

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