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“We were in a very intense post on Captain Marvel and had no interest in reading or committing to doing anything at that particular moment,” Mrs. America executive producer and director Ryan Fleck said about how he boarded the Dahvi Waller-created limited series with his directing partner Anna Boden. The series tells…

Spoiler Alert: The following podcast contains spoilers about season 3 of Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel The one motif that rings throughout season 3 of Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is that the production literally struck up the band. From the first episode’s massive USO show, to a Latin Miami dance slow…

When it comes to displaying the warmth and California style of the characters on Netflix’s Grace and Frankie, Devorah Herbert continually finds inspiration around her, whether she’s driving around LA, or at a friend’s home. “That authenticity in the sets is a huge part in my mind of the success of a show,” says the…

Today we speak with Westworld EP and writer Denise Thé who takes us inside the writers’ room of one of TV’s most genre-bending shows, and how the socially conscious sci-fi action series clicks in all its nuances. Thé wrote two key episodes this past season, episode 3 “The Absence of Field” in which we step inside…

Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ superhero origins social commentary DC graphic novel series Watchmen historically has been a challenge for Hollywood to adapt due to its sprawling and complex plotting. In fact, when HBO and Warner Bros approached The Leftovers and Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof to reboot it, he turned…

She’s set the hip tone before the Bride’s bloody samurai battle in the House of Blue Leaves in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Vol. 1 with “Woo Hoo” from Japanese girl band The 5.6.7.8’s and she’s made Margaret Qualley’s hippie character Pussycat jump for joy to Neil Diamond’s “Brother Love’s Travelling Salvation Show&#8221…

When Apple TV+ launched its flagship series The Morning Show starring Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, and Steve Carell, it didn’t exactly knock critics off its feet with a 61% Rotten Tomatoes score. Compare that to the first season of HBO’s Big Little Lies, another Witherspoon-produced zeitgeist series about…

Our guest today on Crew Call is two-time Oscar nominated and Primetime Emmy-winning composer Nicholas Britell whose classical score for the second season of HBO’s Succession continues to evoke the onscreen emotions of the complex, warring adult childs of media magnate Logan Roy (Brian Cox) in the Jesse…

On today’s episode of Crew Call we speak with Alena Smith, the creator of Apple TV’s period comedy series Dickinson starring Hailee Steinfeld as the famed, passionate, dark 19th Century Amherst, Mass. poet, and the show’s composers Drum & Lace and Ian. Dickinson follows Emily Dickinson through her formative teenage…

On today’s Crew Call podcast we speak with Marc Cherry who after a long-running streak with ABC’s Desperate Housewives and Lifetime’s Devious Maids returns to the underbelly of Americana bourgeoisie in CBS All Access’ Why Women Kill. Working with a streamer is bliss for Cherry, free from the fences erected by a…

On the first Crew Call podcast of the Emmy season we speak with Oscar nominated The Favorite screenwriter Tony McNamara about his new Hulu/Media Rights Capital series The Great which follows Elle Fanning as 18th Century Empress of Russia Catherine the Great as she carefully plots a coup d’etat to take down her boorish…

In Jay Roach’s telling of Fox News boss Roger Ailes’ downfall by the women he harassed at the network, there’s a great pace in Bombshell, which organically makes this drama feel like a thriller. When Bombshell editor Jon Poll first read the screenplay, he did so in the mindset of Roach’s style, specifically, the…