Like film, television comes in a variety of different genres— but the two core types are drama and comedy. Though this has been changing recently, most dramas, whether “prestige” or “procedural,” have ...

It covers the production stage of a script reaching the television screen, which follows from a greenlight from the ...

This story originally appeared in NPR's Student Podcast Challenge newsletter. Subscribe here. When I (Abē Levine) started interning here at NPR, I worked nights as a wedding server. And one thing ...

If you’re an avid podcast fan, you’ll notice that there are (broadly speaking) two types of shows: non-narrative and narrative. Non-narrative podcasts are more freewheeling, constructed around ...

Everyone knows what a bad speech sounds like. But very few know how to write good a one — and even fewer have what it takes to write a truly funny speech. Veteran comedy writer Carol Leifer happens to ...

When Scott Frank was a child, his father, Barry, bought a small Cessna airplane, and on weekends the two of them would fly. This was the mid-nineteen-seventies, in Los Gatos, California. Barry was a ...

Artificial intelligence has become a major point of contention in the Writers Guild negotiations, with scribes calling it an existential risk. To see how imminent that threat is, THR had ChatGPT write ...