
Screenwriters' Rant Room
Hosted by Hilliard Guess and Dalila Ali Rajah and Deonte Staats and Hilliard · Hilliard Guess
5.0from 187 ratings
- 560
- Episodes
- 77
- Transcribed
- 187
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2014
- First episode
About Screenwriters' Rant Room
This is the Official Podcas for "Hilliard Guess' SCREENWRITERS' RANT ROOM!" Our host is Hilliard Guess, a WGAw writer, director, TV/Film producer and most recently, the former Director of Development at Blue Monday Prods (now executive producer of Amazon's upcoming CROSS: AFTER HOURS series). Hilliard does one-on-one interviews with guests or rotating co-hosts stop by to drop industry bombs in this unfiltered, hilarious podcast series that delivers nuthin’ but REAL TALK… from REAL working writers! SUBSCRIBE, SHARE, 5 STAR RATE! Screenwritersrantroom.com Our motto: “Keep it GAME all day!"
- Publisher
- Hilliard Guess
- Category
- tv & film
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 2 May 2014
- Latest episode
- 9 Apr 2026
Latest episodes
77 of 560 episodes have a transcript.

9 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT
TV WRITERS LIVE PANEL - ANTHOLOGY IO

23 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT
551 SHOWRUNNER - QUINTON PEEPLES

16 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT
EP 550 - ALONA TAL - CROSS
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TV WRITERS LIVE PANEL - ANTHOLOGY IO
Published 9 Apr 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] If there's offer at all, Tell me the synopsis as if I'm going to go to the movie for it. And if I like the way it's being told to me, either by the agent or the writer, whoever it is, then I'll read it. Because he wants to be like, I'm going to be an audience. I want the audience to know. Because at a certain point before he reads the script, he's the audience. And so all the stuff you're doing with the log line is, this is why you want to read this. This is why you want to read me. It's like the marketing aspect of it. And the log line has got to be important. It's the most important thing to get you read. […]
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- Quinton Peeples
- Alona Tal
- Adam Davenport
- J David Shanks
- Rich Scott
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 156 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 31 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 67 / 100
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- 96
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- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 93
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Who hosts Screenwriters' Rant Room?
Hilliard Guess and Dalila Ali Rajah and Deonte Staats and Hilliard host the show. Published by Hilliard Guess.
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