Writers Mentoring Program News Today

NBCU Launch Welcomes 2024-25 Class Of NBC TV Writers Program

Paramount Global announced the nine writers selected to participate in the Paramount Writers Mentoring Program for 2024-2025.

Within a week of the 146-day Writers Guild of America strike ending, all seven writers in the Paramount Writers Mentoring Program have landed jobs.

Within a week of the 146-day Writers Guild of America strike ending, all seven writers in the Paramount Writers Mentoring Program for 2022-2023 have landed…

A real-life Doogie Howser who grew up in Utah is consultant on a reboot of that series — “Doogie Kameāloha, M.D.”

NCIS: Hawaii writer and story editor Yakira Chambers has passed away. Chambers preliminary cause of death is reportedly acute asphyxiation, family sources told Deadline .

Advancing to their second World Premiere this season, live performance returns to the stage at Skylight Theatre on March 12th, in partnership with Playwrights' Arena. Award winning playwright Boni B. Alvarez captures the pulse of the times we’re living in as he gives audiences a bird’s eye view of Apartment Living.

Fighting Back Co-showrunners Christina M. Kim and Robert Berens take on issues of inclusion, representation, and racism in their reboot of the ’70s hit series Kung Fu. Kung Fu. Dashboard Robert Berens For the majority of my career Ive been in many [writers’] rooms that right now people would be canceled for. In every room I was in that was inappropriate, that was not a positive work environment, all I could think about was, One day, I hope that Im a showrunner, and Im not going to do thi...

Hollywood Has Opened Some Doors For Underrepresented TV Writers, But What Comes Next? Diversity programs have helped more people start their careers. But to build a truly inclusive Hollywood, they need more paths to power. By Marina Fang Updated Jan 29, 2021 For more than a decade, Claudia Forestieri was a reporter and producer for Telemundo, telling stories about Latinx communities around the country, from the Bay Area, to Chicago, to Miami, to Los Angeles, where she now lives. The work was im...