{"title": "How Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone Transformed TV, with Serling biographer Alan Sepinwall", "start": "2026-11-13T16:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Paley Center for Media", "address": "West 52nd Street 25, 10019 New York", "price": "Free for Paley Members, included in General Admission", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/television", "literature/biography"], "description": "A curator conversation at the Paley Center for Media about Rod Serling, the writer, producer, and narrator of The Twilight Zone, who redefined what television could be and inspired almost every major TV and film creator working today. Renowned TV critic and New York Times best-selling author Alan Sepinwall discusses his new biography, Serling: A Journey Into The Twilight Zone with TV's First Visionary, with Paley curator Jason Lynch. 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