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MG Media: How much pride do you take in the fact that your casts are much more racially diverse than most other shows? Shonda: I don’t take pride in it at all. I think it’s sad, and weird, and strange that it’s still a thing, nine years after we did “Grey’s,” that it’s still a thing. […]
From: Post-Water-Cooler TV: How to Make a TV Drama in the Twitter Age “The thing that still is really completely out of whack is pilot season. I mean having gone through that and having six weeks from a green light to shooting the pilot, competing with 100 other shows for talent, it’s crazy. It just seems completely […]
From: Post-Water-Cooler TV: How to Make a TV Drama in the Twitter Age “They all watch it more than once. They watch it, and they live-tweet, and then the fans will watch it again and be like: I noticed this other thing.” Yes, this is definitely true. People will watch your show more than once if they […]
From: Post-Water-Cooler TV: How to Make a TV Drama in the Twitter Age “A show is much more like jazz than it is a symphony. It’s call and response, responding to what’s happening in front of you.” “You can have a plan, but you have to be open and flexible to making that plan better if an […]
From: Post-Water-Cooler TV: How to Make a TV Drama in the Twitter Age “Q: But, as he says, the writers will often put characters in a jam with no idea of how to get out of it. How close to his reality is yours?” I love how Carlton Cuse (Co-exec on Lost) didn’t weigh in [in this […]
Link: Post-Water-Cooler TV: How to Make a TV Drama in the Twitter Age “The water cooler moment, what is that really? At its core, it’s people having a reason to have a conversation about a shared experience, but there’s a lot of ways to have a shared experience. That can be live-tweeting. That can be people that […]