Show Notes
Joe Port & Joe Wiseman (creators, Eternally Yours; Ghosts) discuss the death and rebirth of their new show (thanks to Dead Pilots Society!), the "easy" eleven year path to getting it on the air, their comedy influences, and more.
Dead Pilots Society makes its first appearance in New York at the Brooklyn Bell House on Sunday 10/25 7pm! Live reads of comedy pilots that were never produced. Scripts by Chris Kelly (co-creator, The Other Two) and Allison Silverman (Schmiggadoon) and starring Amber Ruffin (Late Night with Seth Meyers), Josh Radnor (How I Met Your Mother), Robin Lord Taylor (Gotham; You), Josh Segarra (The Other Two; Abbott Elementary), Lucy Freyer (Adults), Fina Strazza (Dig), Jimmy Fowlie (SNL), Gideon Glick (Mrs. Maisel), Max Jenkins (Dead Boy Detectives), and more! Get tickets now!
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Teacher and script consultant Pilar Alessandra is ending her inspiring and instructive podcast, On the Page, after 19 years and 1000 episodes. Ben Blacker administers Pilar's exit interview, discussing why she started the podcast, invaluable advice gleaned from the writers she's interviewed, the "drunk and naked" early episodes, how to write great dialogue, tips on pitching from her children, podcast as inadvertant autobiography, workflow, her favorite episodes, and more. You can listen to On the Page wherever you get your podcasts, and visit onthepage.tv to find out about Pilar's classes and script consulting. She knows her stuff!
Cassie Pappas (showrunner, Lucky; Silo; Griselda) discusses shooting in Vegas, movies that inspired the tone of Lucky, the emotional guts of the show, getting weird with the writers, showrunning as a "creative team sport," whether or not you need to live in LA to work in TV, and more.
Ana Nogueira (Supergirl) discusses pitching open writing assignments, setting a reasonable goal, the Westerns that inspired Supergirl, the core of Kara Zor-El, her favorite brainwash, and lots more.