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Selena: The Series writers say Netflix disrespected the singer with a fast and cheap production
Writers on the Netflix biographical series on Tejano pop superstar Selena Quintanilla complain that they were overworked and underpaid --...
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Posted Friday 6/26/20 at 3:15AM EDT
Black TV writers are getting hired, but they're not getting promoted
Black writers are getting more opportunities writing for television, but so few of them have supervising producer roles.
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Posted Monday 6/15/20 at 11:23AM EDT
Killing Eve hit with backlash over its apparently all-white writers' room
Writer Kayleigh Llewellyn tweeted a Zoom image of the writing staff after completing work on Season 4, and it was...
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Posted Sunday 2/23/20 at 9:44PM EST
Streaming TV's glut of shows has created more opportunities TV writers, but has led to unpredictable schedules
TV writers, specifically executive producers, are finding that streaming shows take longer to make with fewer episodes, resulting in less...
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Veep Showrunner on the Show's Greatest Pop Culture Influences
Earlier this year we wiped our eyes and did weird "I'm not crying" laugh-hiccups as we said goodbye to Veep.
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Posted Thursday 7/25/19 at 11:48PM EDT
A Little Late with Lilly Singh will be the only late-night show with a gender-equal writing staff
Singh has tapped three men and three woman as her writers for her 1:35 a.
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Posted Tuesday 6/18/19 at 9:53PM EDT
ITV won't order any more comedies with all-male writing staffs
The British broadcast channel is making it a requirement that all of the networks' commissioned shows have female writers.
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Posted Saturday 6/01/19 at 8:34AM EDT
Vida creator has a bruja bless her new workspace before beginning to write
Tanya Saracho considers herself “superstitious and very connected to spirits," so she asks a bruja, or witch, to bless every...
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Posted Wednesday 5/15/19 at 4:33AM EDT
Learn the secret lingo of a TV writers' rooms
Black-ish writers like to use "5 Percenter" to describe a joke that only 5% of the audience will get, while...
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Posted Thursday 5/09/19 at 6:58PM EDT
Conan O'Brien: Why I settled "My Stupid Lawsuit" over joke-stealing
In a Variety essay, Conan pointed to the problem of "tweet-saming," where numerous people come up with the same obvious...
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Posted Monday 4/29/19 at 9:53AM EDT
Keenen Ivory Wayans: My proudest In Living Color legacy is having had a predominantly female writing staff
Wayans and his cast marked the 25th anniversary of his groundbreaking Fox sketch show's anniversary at the Tribeca Festival.
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Posted Friday 4/26/19 at 5:56AM EDT
Presenting The Simpsons' writers' room terminology
Matt Selman, a longtime Simpsons writer and executive producer, shared a list of such writers' room terminology as "emotion lotion,...
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Posted Thursday 3/14/19 at 1:42PM EDT
Study: 64% of diverse TV writers have experienced discrimination or harassment on the job
The Think Tank for Inclusion and Equity surveyed TV writers who are female, non-binary, LGBTQ, people of color and/or people...
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Posted Tuesday 9/04/18 at 9:45AM EDT
TV executives are scrambling to hire more minority writers, but they're facing a shortage of Hollywood's own making
"Plenty of minority and female writers are looking for jobs, but may be unknown to or overlooked by showrunners, unrepresented...
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Posted Friday 6/29/18 at 10:56PM EDT
Literary writers used to be snobs when it came to television -- now they want to be TV writers
"So utterly has the literati’s disdain for the small screen dissolved that nowadays novelists are lining up to have their...