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Posted Thursday 2/15/18 at 9:04PM EST
The 2007 TV writers strike ended 10 years ago this week: Here's how it changed TV forever
The three-month strike that lasted from November 5, 2007 through February 12, 2008 resulted in David Letterman and Conan O'Brien...
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Posted Wednesday 1/31/18 at 11:59PM EST
Go behind the scenes of the emotional One Day at a Time Season 2 episode that made Rita Moreno cry
The series writers discuss their approach to “What Happened,” Season 2’s eighth episode, which left Rita Moreno and other cast members...
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Posted Tuesday 1/23/18 at 9:15PM EST
TV actors and writers are using an anonymous Google database to compare their salaries
The separate databases, which include information about race and gender, aim to help improve salary equality.
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Posted Friday 1/05/18 at 11:08PM EST
Check out The Simpsons’ original “Steamed Hams” draft script
Simpsons writer Bill Oakley recently shared the draft script from the famous Season 7 episode, "22 Short Films About Springfield.
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Posted Tuesday 11/21/17 at 9:19PM EST
25 comedy writers pick the most influential TV episodes
For The Daily Show’s Roy Wood Jr, it was an episode of The Wire that inspired his comedy.
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Posted Wednesday 11/01/17 at 2:48PM EDT
Study: Just 4.8% of TV writers are black
A UCLA professor's new study, titled “Race in the Writers’ Room: How Hollywood Whitewashes the Stories That Shape America,” found...
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Posted Wednesday 10/25/17 at 7:48PM EDT
Lena Waithe nearly walked away from writing her Emmy-winning Master of None “Thanksgiving” episode
At one point, she told creators Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang, “my plate’s too full.
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Posted Tuesday 10/10/17 at 10:15PM EDT
Amber Ruffin still can’t believe she’s part of Late Night
Nearly four years after joining Seth Meyers — soon after SNL rejected her — Ruffin is still thrilled for her...
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Posted Wednesday 9/13/17 at 10:02PM EDT
Why Insecure's season finale had an unusual structure
“We constantly like to play with the idea of how we use time in our episodes and finding new ways...
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Posted Monday 9/11/17 at 9:26PM EDT
What it’s like to write for Jeopardy!
The writers come up with a category and get to work in offices surrounding a library.
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Posted Monday 9/11/17 at 3:14PM EDT
Arrow is making a mistake doing a Black Lives Matter-themed episode
According to The Root, “TV shows with no black writers have no business writing a #BlackLivesMatter episode.
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Posted Tuesday 8/29/17 at 2:56PM EDT
Matthew Weiner is bringing back some of his Mad Men team for Amazon’s The Romanoffs
Writers, producers, production designers and hair and makeup team are all reuniting with Weiner for his next TV series.
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The Daily Show could see a boost as late-night talk shows take the rest of the summer off from Trump news
President Trump has made what was supposed to be the slowest month of the year into one of the most...
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Posted Friday 8/18/17 at 8:43PM EDT
TV writers are stressed out in this era of Peak TV
One writer was working so much — on American Crime and 13 Reasons Why — that he ended up in...