Interview with Lee Goldberg and Matt Witten, part I

Lee Goldberg and Matt Witten 2003 at the Edgar Awards
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How did you two became involved with Action Concept?
Lee Goldberg
I was brought over here to teach by Media X-change which is an organisation run by Katrina Wood, which brings together professional television writers, producers, studio executives, network executives from the United States and their counterparts in Europe, so they can learn from one another. And I have been associated with the Media X-change in a casual way for twelve, fifteen years, something like that. And Action Concept came to Katrina and asked her to put together a showrunner training programme, a way to do a writers' room. And initially, she invited me and a very famous, acclaimed writer named William Finkelstein („L.A. Law“, „Law & Order“, „NYPD Blue“), and he and I did this back in July, and it has turned out, I was just so enamoured of Action Concept and what they do, and I liked Hermann Joha so much, and luckily, he liked me as much as I liked him, and we decided to work together on some things. And I've become a non-exclusive development consultant to Action Concept.
But I'm still teaching. So, we did this again in October with Bryce Zabel („The Crow“, „Lois & Clark - The New Adventures of Superman“; President of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences). What is unique about this writer's room thing is although each one of us is teaching the same principles, we have different attitudes about how to do that. So the students really get very different points of view on the same essential principles. And it makes it a fresh new experience every time. Actually, I wanted Matt since the beginning, but he has been unavaiable, he has been on shows all the time. So we got lucky this time. Hermann recognizes for his company to succeed he's got to make this seismic shift in his company, and he is really paving the way, and he's hoping by bringing all these writers and our experience together he's training the next generation of writer-producers who will form the writers' room of his new shows.
In tomorrow's edition, Lee Goldberg and Matt Witten will discuss some differences between German and American TV shows.
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