The creators of the USA comedy, Michaela Watkins (Saturday Night Live; Trophy Wife) and Damon Jones (Halfway Home) discuss issue-driven comedy, long takes, complicated characters, selling their series twice, their writers' room, and lots more. Benched airs Tuesday nights on USA! LISTEN TO THE WRITERS PANEL AD-FREE ON FOREVER DOG PLUS:<a href="https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plus">https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plu</a><a href="http://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plus">s</a>CONNECT W/ BEN BLACKER &amp; THE WRITER'S PANEL ON SOCIAL MEDIA <a href="https://twitter.com/BENBLACKER">https://twitter.com/BENBLACKER</a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TVWritersPanel">https://www.facebook.com/TVWritersPanel</a>THE WRITER'S PANEL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST <a href="https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/the-writers-panel/">https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/the-writers-panel</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

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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.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.