Warner Bros. Discovery announced Tuesday afternoon that it was ending its 40-year TV writers development program, along with its equivalent pipeline program for directors.
For more than 40 years, the Warner Bros. writers’ workshop selected up to eight early-career writers with the immediate goal of staffing them on a WBTV-produced show and the longer-term goal of establishing their careers in the industry. Although the program was open to participants of all backgrounds, as was the Warner Bros.
directors’ program, which also is shutting down, both were regarded as crucial pipelines for artists from historically excluded backgrounds who lacked the industry connections to enter the business the “traditional” way. Over time, the workshops became part of the origin stories of countless working TV writers and directors, including Zak Schwartz (
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