NYWIC presents "One on One with Sue Solomon, Talent Producer, The VIEW"

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One on One with Sue Solomon, Talent Producer, The View

What does it take to make compelling TV in the age of YouTube, the 24-hr news cycle and social media? How does television connect with today's woman? What are the hot topics that deliver on ratings - and has it changed over the years? Television veteran and Emmy Award winning producer Sue Solomon has experienced these changes in the inudustry - and even more. Join the conversation with Sue on April 5th to get her take on the direction of television targeted to women.

Sue is a television veteran who has served as Talent Director for The View, since its premiere in August 1997. Since its start, the talk show has met much acclaim. The View is the recipient of 29 Daytime Emmy® Awards, numerous Daytime Emmy Award nominations, including 11 consecutive nominations for Outstanding Talk Show and 13 consecutive nominations for Outstanding Talk Show Host.

Sue started her career working for Sally Jesse Raphael and also worked in special programming at HBO. She was also a consultant for the Food Network as the network built its presence. She will be interviewed by Stephen Silverman, News Editor of People.com.

Stephen is the jack of all media trades: an author, journalist, editor and critic. Silverman has contributed (and still does) to Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Harper's Bazaar, InStyle, The London Times Magazine, New York, The New York Observer, The New York Times, Playboy, Travel & Leisure, U.S. News and World Report, Vogue, and The Washington Post. Throughout the 1980s he was the Chief Entertainment Correspondent for the New York Post.

Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Time: 6:00 - 8:00 PM

6:00-6:30- Networking

6:30-7:30- Discussion and Audience Q&A

7:30-8:00- Networking

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375 Hudson Street (between W. Houston and King Street)

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Sue Solomon is an Emmy Award winning producer for her work in network, syndicated and cable programming. Ms. Solomon has been at The View since the show began in August 1997. She was a senior producer on The Joan Rivers Show and was a consultant at the start-up of the TV Food Network. She coached Montel Williams and was director of Special Programming at HBO, where she supervised various productions as well producing many of their original music and comedy specials. She has also produced for Sally Jessy Raphael, Hour Magazine, as well as the critically acclaimed Dick Cavett, Mike Douglas and David Frost shows.

Stephen M. Silverman, news editor of People.com, is an author whose books include Where There's a Will (Who Inherited What and Why); The Fox That Got Away (The Last Days of the Zanuck Dynasty at 20th Century Fox); Anger, Envy and Sweet Revenge (Hey, It Works in Hollywood); Funny Ladies (The Great Women Comedians of the 20th Century), as well as the widely praised biographies of the Oscar-winning directors of Lawrence of Arabia and Singin' in the Rain: David Lean and Dancing on the Ceiling: The Films of Stanley Donen, featuring introductions by Katharine Hepburn and Audrey Hepburn, respectively, and which served as subjects of gala tributes at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills and at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. In 2008, his 10th book, Divas!, with an introduction by Bette Midler, was published by Rizzoli, and he is currently at work on a history of the Catskills, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2012, in conjunction with a documentary on PBS. As a writer, editor and critic, Silverman has contributed (and still does) toCosmopolitan, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Harper's Bazaar, InStyle, The London Times Magazine, New York, The New York Observer, The New York Times, Playboy, Travel & Leisure, U.S. News and World Report, Vogue, and The Washington Post. Throughout the 1980s he was the Chief Entertainment Correspondent for the New York Post. For television, he wrote the 1994 TBS documentary Hot on the Trail: Love and Sex in the Old West. Born in Los Angeles, Silverman was educated at the University of California, Irvine, which in 1997 named him Distinguished Alumnus of the Year. He received his Master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where, as a faculty member from 1995-2004, he taught cultural arts reporting.

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