EXCLUSIVE: NBCU Launch has set its 2024-26 class for the TV Directors Program, now in its fifteenth year. Those selected and the shows they are attached to are Parisa Barani (Law & Order), Winter Dunn (The Irrational), Nina Kramer (St.
Denis Medical), and Liz Sargent (Chicago Med). Founded in 2009, NBCU’s scripted directing program (now called the NBCU Launch TV Directors Program) gives experienced directors with distinct points of view their break into episodic television.
The program supports the company’s goal of producing authentic stories with talent whose lived experiences inform their unique creative visions.
It’s the first scripted directing initiative in the TV industry to guarantee that participants will helm at least one episode by the program’s culmination.
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