Happy Thanksgiving TSLers! Enjoy this throwback to our very first episode.

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To prepare for his upcoming appearance on our show, TSL is proud to rebroadcast a classic, Michael Ardnt's Act 1 Masterclass.

Little Miss Sunshine's script, written by our guest Michael Arndt, won almost every major industry award, and for good reason. Its warmth, humor, and surefooted commitment to its themes makes it one of the finest scripts written this century. And SO many of those themes show up in Act 1.

Michael has become a bit "obsessed" with act 1's lately, because it's our chance to maximize the "rooting interest" around our hero so that our audience has no choice but to keep watching. FOR MICHAEL'S (AMAZING) WEBSITE: https://www.pandemoniuminc.com/

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The Morning Show is one of TV's most discussed shows, and season 3 showrunner Charlotte Stoudt recognizes it's cultural foothold. For her, the idea of incorporating real world events is all about character, and a chance for both the characters and their discussion of the world around them to illuminate each other. Charlotte also discusses how she runs the morning show room, works with her powerhouse cast, and looks back on her impressive career.

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In our time time-honored tradition of asking the same three questions at the end of every show, we wanted to put together a supercut of some great guest responses to be enjoyed in one fell swoop. New episodes

Featured in today's supercut:

- Nora Twomey

- Eirene Tran Donohue

- Constanza and Domenica Castro

- Allison Tolman

- Dustin Lance Black

- Dana Stevens

- Jeremy Doner

- Joe Robert Cole

- Kelly Edwards

- John Lee Hancock

- Jane Anderson

- Julia Cho and Domee Shi

- Rafael Casal

- Kelly Fremon Craig

- Charlie Day

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In our time time-honored tradition of asking the same three questions at the end of every show, we wanted to put together a supercut of some great guest responses to be enjoyed in one fell swoop. Part two coming Monday!

Featured in today's supercut:

- Matt Lieberman

- Monique N. Matthews

- Sean Presant

- Stacy Rukeyser

- Sam Bain

- Nicole Perlman

- Stephen Karam

- Anna Drezen

- Jenny Lumet and Alex Kurtzman

- David F.M. Vaughn

- Dan O'Shannon

- Jen Grisanti

- Patrick Osborne 

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We're back for another story workshop, plus some amazing suggestions for writing exercises to help crack act 2.

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Believe it or not, documentary filmmaking has lots in common with traditional narrative feature filmmaking...tune in today to learn why, with two award-winning documentarians!

TO SEE MONIQUE'S DOC (screening this week!): https://www.birthingjustice.com/screenings/

FOR MORE ON LINDA: https://ladylikefilms.com/

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Throughout the 21st century, video games have become one of pop cultures most valuable mediums, and their narrative ambition grows with each passing year. Today we feature two of the industries top writers, Shanon M. Ingles (Batman: A Telltale Series) and Stephan Bugaj (Tales From the Borderlands) to discuss how the industry has evolved from a writing standpoint, and how you can break in.

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Today, we do one of our favorite things: answer YOUR questions. As is always the case, a theme emerged across your questions and our conversation, which boils down to one of the hardest and most important questions we face as artists. How are we supposed to feel validated in our work, especially when it's hard?

Don't forget to join us for our FINAL DRAFT in Austin this year on Saturday evening at Stephen F's Bar & Terrace after our workshop. We are so exciting to be partnering with Final Draft!

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TSL was on set this week! (Exciting - more soon)...but because our bandwidth was stretched a bit thin, we're going to be rebroadcasting a fan favorite: the lava episode!

There may be no topic we discuss more on this show than lava, so we decided to put an episode together unpacking the entire volcano.

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