{"podcast":{"title":"The Writers Panel","slug":"the-writers-panel-1063873","podcast_index_feed_id":1063873,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/64136d56d4086100118cc769","website_url":"https://benblacker.substack.com/","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/64136d56d4086100118cc769/show-cover.jpeg","author":"Ben Blacker","episode_count":649,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T16:17:37.670443+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-writers-panel-1063873"},"episode":{"title":"Cassie Pappas (Lucky)","slug":"cassie-pappas-lucky","published_at":"2026-07-14T08:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-writers-panel-1063873/cassie-pappas-lucky","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-writers-panel-1063873","url":"https://shows.acast.com/nerdistwriters/episodes/6a5289e2e31e37bb56ce8f46","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/64136d56d4086100118cc769/e/6a5289e2e31e37bb56ce8f46/media.mp3","summary":"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. No Notes is Sunday July 19, 7pm , at the Dynasty Typewriter Theater in LA! This is a new staged show in which great pilot scripts are adapted for the stage and performed by brilliant casts. The July 19 show features two comedy scripts: The Survivalists is by Kashana Cauley ( The Great North ; The Daily Show ), based on her novel about a Brooklyn lawyer who falls in love with a coffee roaster/survivalist. Suckers by Eden Dranger ( Beavis & Butthead ) & Daley Haggar ( The Big Bang Theory ) is about 20-something vampires. Starring Yvonne Orji ( Insecure ), Shabana Azeez ( The Pitt ), Molly Quinn ( Castle ), Justin Kirk ( The Burbs ; Weeds ), Cooper Tomlinson ( Obsessed ), Kira Kosarin ( The Thundermans ), Langston Kerman ( Insecure ; The Boys ), Jessica Garcia ( On My Block ), Logan Miller ( Escape Room ; Chicago Med ), Alex Song-Xia ( Rick and Morty ), Burl Moseley ( Crazy Ex-Girlfriend ), and LaNisa Frederick ( Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat ). GET TICKETS NOW THE WRITERS PANEL IS A COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION. Follow and support the show by subscribing to Ben Blacker's newsletter, Re:Writing , where you'll also get weekly advice from the thousands of writers he's interviewed over the years, as well as access to exclusive live Q&As, meet-ups, and more: benblacker.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Cassie Pappas (showrunner, Lucky ; Silo ; Griselda ) discusses shooting in Vegas, movies that inspired the tone of Lucky , the emotional guts of the show,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2497,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-writers-panel-1063873/episodes/cassie-pappas-lucky/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-writers-panel-1063873/cassie-pappas-lucky.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}