CW's Scripted Death is Writer Hell

I talk to Greg Berlanti, Julie Plec and Mark Pedowitz about the burst pipeline under new owner Nexstar: 'There was nothing I didn't learn there'

RIP The Vampire Diaries was an iconic show for The CW and a great training ground for new writers. (The CW)

Lesley Goldberg reports from L.A. She recently interviewed CBS Entertainment president Amy Reisenbach and wrote about the new “blinking yellow light” hell of TV development.

In 1998, a then-unknown writer by the name of Greg Berlanti got his first j…