Director W. Kamau Bell, executive producer Katie A. King and editor Jennifer Brooks joined Deadline’s Contenders Television: The Nominees award-season event to discuss working on the Showtime docuseries We Need To Talk About Cosby, and navigating triggering material.The four-part series is nominated for three Emmy Awards, for Outstanding Narrator, Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program, and Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program.Contenders TV: The Nominees — Deadline’s Complete CoverageIn the series, Bell measures the groundbreaking accomplishments of Cosby versus his survivors who accused him of sexually assaulting them after drugging them.
When asked how he felt reaching out to survivors and asking them to participate, Bell said, “I think the only thing we could do is be honest about what we were trying to create.”King was asked why she joined the project and how it affected the culture at large. “We had to take care of our mental health throughout,” she said. “I think it’s important to have complex conversations like this, and our goals were bigger than telling you about what this one person did.”When putting together the overall focus of the story, editing became essential.
With so much footage, and so much to choose from, Brooks says she and the other editors found the right clips to create the story behind the man.“It’s just brick by brick,” she says. “It was about finding out what we’re trying to achieve with this part, or where are we trying to go with this, and what do we want people to feel.”Check back Monday for the panel video.Broadcast networks’ fall lineups and schedulesNew and returning series on broadcast, cable and streamingSeries that made it or didn’t make it in
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