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From the 51st Annual Tulane Educational Conference - January 31, 2004 "Producing a Weekly TV Series" - Get the inside track on behind-the-scenes production of four-plus decades of TV! Panel moderated by Lea Ellison (Newcomb '69), a producer and president of Strong Hearts Entertainment, Inc., with 28 years experience in television, theatre, arts festival production, management and marketing. For twelve years, Ms. Ellison worked as art director or assistant art director in network series television. Her credits include ABC-TV's "Soap," "Benson," "It's a Living," "Oh, Madeline!," "I'm a Big Girl Now," "Charlie & Company," and "Off the Rack;" NBC-TV's "Night Court," and "Amen;" and Louisiana Public Television's Justin Wilson's Louisiana Kitchen." Ellison was an assistant art director on "Soap" in 1978 when it won the prime time Emmy Award for Best Art Direction in a Comedy Series. Panel participants include: Michael Price (Graduate School '86), writer and co-executive producer of "The Simpsons." Other recent credits include co-executive producer of "What About Joan," an ABC sitcom starring Joan Cusack, and Disney's "Teacher's Pet," an ABC and Disney Channel animated show, and supervising producer of "The PJs," a Fox animated comedy starring Eddie Murphy. Todd A. Erlandson, AIA (Architecture '87) architectural consultant on the Discovery Channel's reality series "Monster House," helps conceptualize each scenario, appearing on camera for each "design shoot" with host Steve ...