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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

164 | The Morning Show Showrunner On Incorporating Real World Events Into Our Writing (ft. Charlotte Stoudt)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The Morning Show is one of TV's most discussed shows, and season 3 showrunner Charlotte Stoudt recognizes it's cultural foothold. For her, the idea of incorporating real world events is all about character, and a chance for both the characters and their discussion of the world around them to illuminate each other. Charlotte also discusses how she runs the morning show room, works with her powerhouse cast, and looks back on her impressive career. PATREON: www.patreon.com/thescreenwritinglife

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0:00.0

Hey everyone welcome back to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafour.

0:08.0

And I'm Lorian McKenna and before we get started we're going to talk to you about something that you've all been asking about.

0:14.3

You're all asking how can you get more support? How can we, Loring and I, reach out to you and help you with your own projects?

0:21.9

And our answer is the Patreon. We created it really just. help you

0:25.0

and help you come on over it's the

0:28.0

screenwriting life patreon we've got question and answers over there. We listen to your stories and do

0:34.6

spitball sessions. There's stuff that's been recorded in the past and it really

0:38.9

is just to help you with your stories as best we can.

0:43.0

So we're looking forward to meeting you all over there

0:45.0

and we'd love for you to join us.

0:49.0

I will say for those that we met at AFF who joined,

0:51.0

there's been a good number of you.

0:52.0

We can't wait to meet you on the Zoom. We'll see you soon.

0:54.7

Today we're thrilled to be chatting with season three showrunner of the morning show, Charlotte Stout.

1:01.3

Charlotte has an impressive career in the hour-long TV drama space having worked as a writer

1:05.8

producer on Homeland House of Cards, Fosy Verden, and Netflix pieces of her which she

1:11.1

co-created in addition to show running.

1:14.0

Stout was brought on to show run season three of the morning show which continues the show's

1:18.7

tradition of incorporating real-world politics into its fictionalized universe. Hi Charlotte welcome to be here.

1:23.0

Hi Charlotte, welcome to the ship.

1:25.0

The world to be here, thank you so much.

1:27.0

So but before we chat with Charlotte, we're going to talk about our weeks or what we like to call adventures in screenwriting.

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