Meaghan Wilson Anastasios

Author of 'The Water Diviner,' now a film with Russell Crowe, and screenwriter of 'The Pacific with Sam Neill.'

Filming crew in an ornate classical ballroom with carved columns, gold drapes, and a large black monitor.

A screenwriter pulls back the curtain on what really happens when you pitch a TV show — the producers, the fairy dust, and the moment I thought it was all over.

Why I didn’t. And why authenticity still matters in an AI-saturated world. “Authenticity is becoming infinitely reproducible.” So says Adam Mosseri, head honcho at Instagram. You reckon? Yeah, nah. I call bullshit on that. As a writer, I’ll die on this hill. Authenticity, by its very nature, cannot be replicated. I think what Adam meant …

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