Don't miss this Sunday's guest, Chad Gervich, talking all things agents!
5:00 PM PST
Chad
Gervich is a television producer, bestselling author, and
award-winning playwright.
As a writer and producer, Chad’s credits include E!’s hit
comedy After Lately, starring Chelsea
Handler, Disney Channel’s sitcom Dog With
a Blog, ABC’s Wipeout, Cupcake Wars, and
others. He created Style Network’s hit
comedy/reality show, Foody Call,
before going on to write, produce, and develop shows (both scripted and
reality) for ABC, FOX, Warner Brothers, Endemol, CBS Studios, TruTV, Fox
Reality Channel, Food Network, and the Weinstein Company. He also recently completed a sitcom
development deal with Twentieth Century Fox.
Prior to producing, Chad spent five years as a development
executive with the Littlefield Company, former NBC president Warren
Littlefield's production company, developing pilots and series for NBC, ABC,
FOX, UPN, the WB, and Paramount.
Chad has also worked in production on shows such as Star Search, The Wanda Sykes Show, The
Academy Awards, The Emmy Awards, and
Malcolm in the Middle.
As an author, Chad’s best-selling TV-writing handbook, Small Screen, Big Picture: A Writers Guideto the TV Business (Random House/Crown), debuted in November, 2008, to
massive critical acclaim. (Booklist
called it “the most informative book ever written about the television
industry.) It has become television’s
go-to “bible” for writers, producers, executives, and assistants throughout
Hollywood, and is now being used as a textbook in several studio and network
training programs, as well as at universities throughout the U.S.
As a journalist, Chad writes for Daily Variety and pens Script
magazine's weekly TV-writing column/blog, "PrimeTime." In addition, he created and produced Morning Call Time, Hollywood’s first
daily audio news podcast. He also
contributes regularly to Orange Coast,
Script, Fade In, and Moving Pictures
magazines, and is a Contributing Editor for Writers
Digest magazine—the nation’s top magazine for and about writers and
writing.
In addition, Chad teaches numerous classes and workshops
around the world. He has taught sitcom
writing, pitching, pilot-writing, spec-writing, storytelling, and TV business
seminars for universities such as UCLA, Vanderbilt, and California State -- as
well as organizations like MediaBistro and Gotham Writers Workshop, and corporations
like Nike and Warner Brothers.
