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Writers Talking Screen - The Podcast

Writers Talking Screen is an interview series featuring Canadian TV and feature screenwriters. Produced by the Writers Guild of Canada and hosted by WGC members, Writers Talking Screen brings you intimate conversations about the craft and business of screenwriting. (Formerly known as Writers Talking TV and Cut To.) Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts, including Apple Podcasts. (Also available on WGC YouTube, and in a live Zoom webinar format.)

 

 

Writers Talking TV

Frankie Drake Mysteries

Nov. 21, 2017 - Carol Hay, co-creator, and Cal Coons, showrunner, talk with host James Hurst about the new CBC show about a fictional female detective in 1920s Toronto as she takes on cases the police don’t want — or can’t handle. 

Writers Talking TV

Kim's Convenience

Oct. 10, 2017 - Showrunners Ins Choi and Kevin White talk with host Jeff Biederman about Kim's Convenience, the story of The Kims, a Korean-Canadian family running a convenience store in downtown Toronto. 

Writers Talking TV

Bellevue

June 15, 2017 - Jane Maggs, co-showrunner, in conversation with screenwriter James Hurst about Bellevue, a mystery set in a small town, starring Anna Paquin as Detective Annie Ryder.

Writers Talking TV

Pure

Feb. 9, 2017 - Michael Amo, showrunner of Pure, talks with host Cal Coons about the years-long process of getting Pure, a story about the "Mennonite mob," to air.

Writers Talking TV

Cardinal

Nov. 22, 2016 - Aubrey Nealon, showrunner of the upcoming series Cardinal, talks to host Carol Hay about writing mysteries, and in particular mysteries set in Canada's snowy north.