Learn The Secrets of The Writers’ Room With Oscar Winner Jim Rash
25/07/2013
In Sundance’s new show, The Writers’ Room, Jim Rash probes today’s top TV writers for inside info on the making (...)
In Sundance’s new show, The Writers’ Room, Jim Rash probes today’s top TV for inside info on the making of beloved shows. Here, he shares his own insights into the writing process. Five or ten years ago, no one outside the TV industry knew what the term “showrunner” meant. Now, we can name several iconic ones who have changed TV history: Tina Fey (30 Rock), David Chase (The Sopranos), David Simon (The Wire) and Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad) among them. But the behind the showrunners, the ones sitting in windowless rooms pounding out the shows we know and love, they’re still largely anonymous. Which is a problem that a new reality show, premiering on Monday, July 29 on the Sundance Channel, called The Writers’ Room, is hoping to correct. On The Writers’ Room, Jim Rash, who won a screenwriting Oscar for The Descendants, co-wrote this summer’s most charming comedy The Way, Way Back, and plays the Dean on Community, interviews from some of today’s most popular shows—including New Girl, Parks and Recreation, and Game of Thrones--about how they work together.Read Full Story
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