'One Day at a Time's' Gloria Calderón Kellett on being the boss and the Netflix numbers game
LOS ANGELES - There's no set schedule for when it might happen, but every so often, "One Day at a Time" co-showrunner Gloria Calderon Kellett pulls up Twitter on her phone, or whatever tech gadget is near, and starts talking business. The business of writing, that is.
Her impromptu Ask Me Anything social media blitzes prompt a flurry of questions: How do you pitch a TV pilot idea? How does one even go about getting an agent? Any tips for writing dialogue that doesn't sound cheesy?
Calderon Kellett may not have all the answers, but she's more than willing to offer suggestions: "I used to be the one who didn't know what the hell I was doing," she says inside her office on the Sony lot in Culver City.
Before she took the helm of Netflix's reboot of Norman Lear's classic sitcom - now with a Cuban American family that allows her to draw inspiration from her own family - Calderon Kellett spent her early Hollywood years
