Exclusive: Sony Pictures Television will link sixteen aspiring scribes with industry professionals and mentors for its six-week Diverse Writers Program.
Participating writers will have discussions with a number of creative executives, producers, seasoned writers and showrunners with the focus of honing their skills in writing scripted television. They will also network with industry professionals and be assigned a mentor from Spt’s pool of producers and scribes.
The writing program will conclude with the participating writers meeting with Spt showrunners and producers to be considered for potential staffing opportunities on U.S. projects. Of the sixteen participating scribes, Spt will select four with whom to develop pilot scripts for both comedies and dramas.
“We believe it’s imperative that underrepresented voices have the opportunity to tell diverse and authentic stories that haven’t been told before and to develop into tomorrow’s preeminent showrunners,” said Jeff Frost, President of Sony Pictures Television Studios.
Participating writers will have discussions with a number of creative executives, producers, seasoned writers and showrunners with the focus of honing their skills in writing scripted television. They will also network with industry professionals and be assigned a mentor from Spt’s pool of producers and scribes.
The writing program will conclude with the participating writers meeting with Spt showrunners and producers to be considered for potential staffing opportunities on U.S. projects. Of the sixteen participating scribes, Spt will select four with whom to develop pilot scripts for both comedies and dramas.
“We believe it’s imperative that underrepresented voices have the opportunity to tell diverse and authentic stories that haven’t been told before and to develop into tomorrow’s preeminent showrunners,” said Jeff Frost, President of Sony Pictures Television Studios.
- 6/1/2021
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
Where do you set a sports talk show if you’re launching a pop-culture/satire network targeting young viewers? In a tricked-out suburban basement, silly! Fusion, the new ABC/Univision joint venture debuting Monday, announced this morning its new “outrageous” half hour of sport-talk mayhem, Sports Talkers, which the network promises, takes sports commentary to the next level. Set in what Fusion described as “tricked out suburban basement”, where three members of comedy troupe Harvard Sailing Team – Rebecca Delgado Smith, Adam Lustick, and Billy Scafuri – will combine elements of talk radio, late-night comedy, and improv performance to create what Fusion, continuing the Parents’ Basement motif, called a “a moth-balled quilt” that begins with sports and ends with “Talkers.” “This show will do for talking about sports what talking about sports has done for sports,” said David Javerbaum, the former Ep and head writer for The Daily Show With Jon Stewart...
- 10/25/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Angela Bassett and Julian McMahon are in final negotiations to star in Fox's untitled Karyn Usher drama. The program focuses on Jane Forsythe, a 14-year-old orphan of a CIA operative who finds a surrogate father in McMahon's rogue agent. Bassett will play the shrewd political director of the CIA who also takes Jane under her wing. [Deadline]
Wendy Crewson, last seen on ABC's "Georgetown" pilot in 2011, is joining the cast of "Beauty and the Beast" as Mara, a member of the Emperor's (F. Murray Abraham) cabinet and a friend of the titular beauty. [ABC]
ABC has also added two actors to pilots - Luis Guzman has been cast as a worker at the Texas diner run by Margo Martindale and her as-of-yet uncast siblings in "Counter Culture," while Rade Serbedzjia has joined "Penoza," the drama focusing on a woman who must take over her dead husband's role in a crime syndicate in order to protect her family.
Wendy Crewson, last seen on ABC's "Georgetown" pilot in 2011, is joining the cast of "Beauty and the Beast" as Mara, a member of the Emperor's (F. Murray Abraham) cabinet and a friend of the titular beauty. [ABC]
ABC has also added two actors to pilots - Luis Guzman has been cast as a worker at the Texas diner run by Margo Martindale and her as-of-yet uncast siblings in "Counter Culture," while Rade Serbedzjia has joined "Penoza," the drama focusing on a woman who must take over her dead husband's role in a crime syndicate in order to protect her family.
- 3/12/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
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