Film Courage: How many pitch meetings would you schedule a day?
Kelly Edwards, Staff Writer, Author, Producer: We had them every hour on the hour. More than likely a typical network executive’s day is usually a breakfast. I usually would start my day with a breakfast, then I’d have a 10 a.m. because I was in the office by 10. Every now and again, a Tuesday morning or Monday morning, we’d have a staff meeting at some point during that week probably Monday or Tuesday where we go over weekend reads, we go through all of this material that it can’t come in or it would be a meeting so it would be a 10 a.m, 11 a.m., a noon, then we go to lunch come back and we would do either 2:30 or a three o’clock, four o’clock, five o’clock, sometimes a six. Actually at UPN we had seven o’clock meetings as well. Those were usually within the company but it might have been a programming conversation with scheduling or with it would be a budget conversation whatever it was. But we were stacked every single hour you had something and that’s why I say…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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BIO:
As HBO and WarnerMedia’s SVP of Talent Development for seven years, Kelly Edwards oversaw all of the emerging artists programs for HBO, HBOMax, and Turner, both domestic and abroad. Edwards’s career spans both television and film, having served as a key corporate diversity executive at Comcast/NBCUniversal and a creative executive for both film director Garry Marshall and producer Laura Ziskin. After moving to television, she spent six years as a senior executive at Fox, where she developed Living Single, Clueless, and The Wild Thornberrys. As SVP of Comedy Development at UPN, she developed Girlfriends, The Parkers, and Malcolm in the Middle. Edwards also produced the movie of the week A Christmas Detour for Hallmark, and the one-hour drama series Sex, Love, and Secrets. She holds a BA in Theater from Vassar and an MFA in Screenwriting from Emerson. Edwards has served on the Annenberg Inclusion Board, the UNCF Leadership Council, the ATAS Diversity committee, as a Trustee for NALIP, and is a 2019 Sundance Episodic Lab fellow. Kelly’s book The Executive Chair: A Writer’s Guide to TV Series Development is now available (via Michael Wiese Productions).
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