Podcast: The Process.Ink — Episode 3 with Janet Leahy

Tom Benedek talks with writer of Mad Men, Gilmore Girls, and other TV series.

Tom Benedek is my good friend and co-founder of Screenwriting Master Class. In fact, Tom is the very first screenwriter I met when I first broke into the business in 1987 (we had offices in the same building on the Universal Studios lot).

Tom has written over 40 projects with some of the top people in the movie and TV business including Robert Zemeckis, Lawrence Kasdan, Lili Fini Zanuck and Richard Zanuck, David Brown, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Sydney Pollack, Richard Rush, Harold Ramis, Lauren Schuler Donner and Richard Donner.

Recently Tom launched The Process.Ink, a podcast in which he talks creative process with writers, showrunners, directors, producers, actors, executives, agents, and managers.

In Episode 3, Tom talks with Janet Leahy about the numerous TV series she’s written and produced including Mad Men, Boston Legal, and Gilmore Girls, covering lots of subjects including the writer’s room, creating episode stories, family of characters, pitching TV shows, and much more.

You may listen to the hour-long chat here.

For the Process.Ink iTunes site, go here.