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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nCurrently, Lankar lives in New York City where he works as a producer on the CBS hit The Drew Barrymore Show<\/em>, spending each day working alongside Barrymore and other A-List celebrities featured on the show. This is no new experience for the Canadian native, who spent the majority of his career working on The Social<\/em>, the number one Canadian daytime television talk show, which airs weekday afternoons on CTV and CTV 2, Canada\u2019s most watched network. The Social<\/em> uses a panel format similar to American talk shows such as The View<\/em> or The Talk<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lankar instantly fell in love with the format, as a longtime fan of The View<\/em>, finding there was no other outlet to watch strong women have intelligent debates around a table and followed it every day. When he heard CTV was launching their own version of a female-led panel talk show, he knew he had to be involved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn my life, I\u2019ve always valued the opinions of women and I think in many ways they can be more level-headed than us men, and The Social <\/em>paints a true picture of who Canadian women are. During my time on the show, we had women of different ages, different races, who had grown up in different settings. Then, when you have these women come to a table and share how their experience has informed their opinion on a certain subject, you get to see the journey of how they got there. I think that\u2019s what made this show so special and important.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “It was important that viewers could tune in every day and know that at least one person on that panel had the same thought they had on last night\u2019s Oscars or an upcoming election. But it was even more important that you got to hear the point of view of someone who totally disagrees with you. It was a learning experience for so many viewers who might hate watching the news, but loved consuming their current events on The Social<\/em>,\u201d says Lankar.<\/p>\n\n\n Lankar was a producer on the show from 2013 to 2020, working on all seven seasons at the time and helping launch the show from inception. He played a large part in shaping over 1000 episodes that he worked on, pitching hot topics, working with the hosts to form their debates, and execute their segments, all in just a few hours a day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy favorite part about working on the show was seeing the live reaction from the audience in real time. Because the show was live everyday, it lends itself to having such a huge audience on social media. So I would pull up Twitter and get to watch the audience agree or disagree with hot topics that I had produced. There is nothing like seeing that feedback so quickly. That\u2019s what I love about working in television in general.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Film producers spend years working on a single project and won\u2019t know how it landed with a viewer until it premieres a year or two later. With television, you know how well you\u2019ve done pretty soon after. Every time I had a segment that didn\u2019t work, I\u2019d learn what exactly wasn\u2019t clicking and made sure I didn\u2019t do it again. Or at least tried to. I also loved working on a show that had so much diversity and inclusion both on the screen and off,\u201d says Lankar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The highlight of Lankar\u2019s esteemed career came from producing the episode of The Social <\/em>featuring Kathy Griffin. As a long time Griffin fan who had read all her books, watched her series My Life on the D-List<\/em>, and followed her Hollywood downfall, he was both excited and terrified to meet his hero. However, from the moment they began working, he knew she was delightful, and made for one of his greatest days on set ever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Brandon](\"https:\/\/www.etc-expo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Brandon-Lankar-Social-2-700x668.png\")
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