PANELISTS:

Thomas Schlamme

Director/EP

Sterling K. Brown

Actor

Bradley Whitford

Actor

Aaron Sorkin

EP/Writer

MODERATOR: Pete Hammond

“These reunions can be treacherous and disappointing and shmaltzy, and I thought this was just a beautiful way to do it.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Aron Forbes

Music Director/
Music Mixer

Richard Yawn

Supervising Sound Editor

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"She is as good as you think and then way beyond. It’s shocking.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Jesse Moss

Director/Producer

Steven Garza

Subject

MODERATOR: Anthony D'Alessandro

"[We were] looking as filmmakers for a way to explore this question so central to the health of this democracy: If we can't solve this problem, we're doomed." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Josh Heald

EP

Jon Hurwitz

EP

Ralph Macchio

EP/Actor

William Zabka

EP/Actor

MODERATOR: Rosy Cordero

"She comes back and kind of rehabilitates him and puts a little piece of his broken heart back together and puts it back in his chest." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Debbie Allen

EP/Director/
Choreographer

Dolly Parton

EP/Actor/
Music & Lyrics

MODERATOR: Antonia Blyth

"Who knew that when we were creating this movie, that it would be aired in the middle of the pandemic, and it would bring so much joy and so much hope..." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Mary Robertson

Showrunner/EP

Liz Day

Supervising Producer

Samantha Stark

Director/Producer

MODERATOR: Dominic Patten

"We saw Britney as someone with agency, with power, as real human being who deserves to be respected." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

David Crane

EP

Kevin Bright

EP

Ben Winston

EP/Director

Marta Kauffman

EP

MODERATOR: Joe Utichi

"When we went into the meeting, I wasn’t convinced this was a good idea. I mean, we’d been saying no for what, 16 years?" Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Cynthia Erivo

Actor

MODERATOR: Dade Hayes

"She wasn’t really good at telling people what she was going through, but when she sang, she was able to share who she was, what she was feeling..." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Lucia Aniello

Creator/EP/
Showrunner

Carl Clemons-Hopkins

Actor

Paul W. Downs

Creator/EP/
Showrunner

Hannah Einbinder

Actor

Jean Smart

Actor

Jen Statsky

Creator/EP

MODERATOR: Pete Hammond

"For us I think that there’s so much lightness and darkness behind the people who need to laugh the most." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Uzo Aduba

Actor

MODERATOR: Jill Goldsmith

"I was in therapy when I was doing the show. I would be on my lunch break and would be in a session. Super meta.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Kate Winslet

EP/Actor

Brad Inglesby

EP/Writer

Craig Zobel

EP/Director

MODERATOR: Mike Flemming Jr.

"I would have tackled anyone to the ground who might have been tempted to give the secret away.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Anna Konkle

Creator/EP/Actor

MODERATOR: Dominic Patten

"The part that is incredible is that you’re the beginning and the end of deciding, and we have a supportive network of what stories are important." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

John P. Goldsmith

Production Designer

David Franco

Cinematographer

Matthew Rhys

Actor

John Lithgow

Actor

MODERATOR: Pete Hammond

"To live out some real boyhood ambitions of mine to don a fedora, and light a cigarette, and give a quippy one liner as I walked away were many dreams come true." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Our Lady J

Co-EP/Writer

Steven Canals

Co-Creator/
EP/Writer/Director

Mj Rodriguez

Performer

Billy Porter

Performer

MODERATOR: Rosy Cordero

"To have been able to live through the AIDS crisis and then all these years later revisit that trauma through a creative lens, that road to healing has been very powerful for me." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Danielle Brooks

Co-EP/Actor

Robin Roberts

EP

MODERATOR: Pete Hammond

"I don’t know if we could have done this film without Danielle Brooks. I believe that with all my heart.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Zoe Jackson

Co-EP

San Heng

Showrunner/EP,
Drag Race
Untucked

Michele Mills

EP

Mandy Salangsang

EP

Michelle Visage

Producer/Judge

MODERATOR: Alexandra Del Rosario

“We pour our whole selves into every season, but this one had that little extra feeling of family for us.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Kenan Thompson

Cast Member

Bowen Yang

Cast Member

MODERATOR: Anthony D'Alessandro

"That was just a great show with [Dave] Chappelle coming back to host; there was this electricity in the city on your way to work. It was like magic was coming out of the sidewalk.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Brian Skerry

Producer

James Cameron

EP

Sigourney Weaver

Narrator

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

“The fact that this is all based on science but is revealing these human-like characteristics in these charismatic animals, is really a bit of a game-changer.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Lori Greiner

EP/Shark Investor

Daymond John

EP/Shark Investor

Yun Lingner

EP

Clay Newbill

EP

MODERATOR: Pete Hammond

"This year I think during the pandemic we wanted to try to give as many deals as we could to help as many businesses as we could and give an extra special leg up because ... people really needed it even more than ever.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Nnamdi Asomugha

Producer/Actor

Eugene Ashe

Writer/Director/
Producer

Tessa Thompson

EP/Actor

MODERATOR: Anthony D'Alessandro

"If I want to be able to play the kind of parts that speak to what I know to be true about my own humanity ... I feel like I can only do that in independent films." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Brendan Hunt

Co-Creator/
EP/Writer/Actor

Brett Goldstein

Writer/Actor

Hannah Waddingham

Actor

MODERATOR: Dominic Patten

"This narrative has risen up of how the show is positive and inspirational and that’s really great that people are finding it that way, but that was never our intention." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Eric Kripke

Showrunner/EP/
Writer

Rebecca Sonnenshine

EP/Writer

MODERATOR: Dominic Patten

“There’s the glacier that peeks out over the water, and that is the superhero show. ... But we spend an incredible amount of time building that glacier under the water." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Ben Caron

Director

Gillian Anderson

Actor

Martin Phipps

Composer

Josh O’Connor

Actor

MODERATOR: Joe Utichi

"It’s really like nothing I’ve ever experienced before. And, and I’ve heard other actors say the same, that it’s been one of their favorite jobs..." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Max Browning

Supervising Producer

Dan Amira

Producer/
Head Writer

Elise Terrell

Supervising Producer

Dulcé Sloan

Correspondent

MODERATOR: Pete Hammond

"You know we were the first late-night show to go back to linear TV and that was really important for us because our audience is what keeps us going." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Susanna Fogel

Director

Kaley Cuoco

EP/Actor

Steve Yockey

Showrunner/EP

Rosie Perez

Actor

MODERATOR: Anthony D'Alessandro

"She's very skilled with her craft and knows what she's doing and the targets and the modulations she's trying to hit." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Liz Garbus

Director

Yahlin Chang

EP/Writer

Bruce Miller

Creator/EP

MODERATOR: Rosy Cordero

"It felt like a natural merging of two things. How [June's] trying to merge her new personality with her old personality—and we have been doing the same thing.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Actor

Bill Horberg

EP

Moses Ingram

Actor

Ellen Lewis

Casting Director

Carlos Rafael Rivera

Composer

MODERATOR: Dominic Patten

"People were telling people, ‘You got to see this show, I don’t care if you know how to play chess or not.’ " Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Nicholas Britell

Composer

Barry Jenkins

Director/
Showrunner

MODERATOR: Pete Hammond

"I had to tell the truth, and I will say, having done research and preparation for this show, the truth is much worse than anything we were able to communicate in the show." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Hugh Grant

Actor

Lester Cohen

Production Designer

MODERATOR: Rosy Cordero

"From Jonathan’s point of view, a second [season] would be quite difficult because it would be just prison visits unless he escapes. He’s going to be there for a long time.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Sterling K. Brown

Actor

Dan Fogelman

Creator/EP/Writer

Chris Sullivan

Actor

MODERATOR: Antonia Blyth

"I just finished writing the season premiere, and it’s the second time I’ve cried writing the show. I was like, ‘Oh God, what’s happening?' " Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Alan Ball

Writer/Director/
Producer

Paul Bettany

Actor

MODERATOR: Matt Grobar

“You know, Alan and I have weirdly similar experiences, in terms of loss and damage. So, that kind of dovetailed really neatly for the story.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Paul Bettany

Actor

Kathryn Hahn

Actor

Elizabeth Olsen

Actor

Jac Schaeffer

Creator/EP/Writer

Matt Shakman

EP/Director

MODERATOR: Mike Flemming Jr.

"You never know with Marvel, whether you’re done or not. So I don’t want to call it the end yet." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Carla Curry

Set Decorator

Yvonne Boudreaux

Art Director

Cary White

Production Designer

MODERATOR: Mike Flemming Jr.

"He was able to give us a lot of little details you wouldn’t think of. Like the bottle of Tylenol by his bed, for his arthritis, the snuff cans that are all over the place, the Louis L’Amour paperbacks." Read Story Here