ATX TV Festival co-founders and co-Presidents Emily Gipson and Caitlin McFarland (photo by John Anderson) 2023 was supposed to be ATX TV Festival's big reboot. After two years of pandemic-era online programming, a smaller return in 2022, and then its acquisition by Penske Media last November , season 12 of the celebration of the small screen looked set to come in like a clear signal. Then the Writers Guild of America went on strike. No wonder there's a long-suffering if good-humored tone to co-founder and co-President Caitlin McFarland's voice.

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