• Know Your Creative Rights

    A reminder for screen- and long-form TV writers of your rights during production.

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    Paul Redford has advice on how to give notes on a script.

  • Survive and Conquer

    Pamela Adlon on how her real life prepared her to take the reins of Better Things.

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