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          Alumna returns to campus to speak about prime-time television

          
            
              
                
                Published: November 05, 2007
              

              
                Author: Son Nguyen
              

              







          

          
          
          

          
        
        
        
          

Katie OConnell, senior vice president of drama development for NBC Entertainment, will speak Nov. 13 (Tuesday) at 7 p.m. in the Browning Cinema of the DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Notre Dame.Her talk will include video clips from shows that she has developed and a discussion about the process of turning a program from a pilot idea into a television series.

Admission to the event is free, but tickets are required.Ticket information is available at the performing arts center box office or by calling 574-631-2800.

A 1991 Notre Dame graduate, OConnell has led the pilot development and launch of first-year seriesChuck,Life,Bionic WomanandJourneyman,as well as the popular series30 Rock,and currently is supervising a line-up of 60 potential drama projects, working with prominent writers and directors including Barry Sonnenfeld, Tom Fontana and Dick Wolf.OConnell previously worked at Imagine Television, where she developed several comedy and drama projects, most notably the Emmy Award-winning showsArrested Developmentand24.

The lecture is sponsored by the Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, Department of American Studies, Department of Film, Television, and Theatre, and Notre Dame Alumni Association.More information is available at http://www.nd.edu/~ftt/ on the Web.

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