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The Business

Aline Brosh McKenna, Co-Creator of 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend'

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna had never planned to go back to working in television. Then she found Rachel Bloom's YouTube videos. She tells us how they teamed up to create the quirky CW musical comedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

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0:00.0

On To the Point, we try to make sense of the policy debates and the political sideshows on the campaign trail.

0:05.8

You have this kind of asymmetrical warfare coming from a guy who's graded at a soundbite, lousy at an answer.

0:11.4

Are you looking for your own billionaire?

0:13.2

Nope. No, I don't want my own billionaire. I'm going to raise the vast majority of the money.

0:17.0

Race yourself America for what?

0:19.3

King Trump.

0:21.1

I'm Warren AlAldney.

0:22.1

To the Point has you covered for the 2016 campaign.

0:25.2

Find the To the Point podcast on KCRW's iTunes page.

0:30.5

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

0:36.9

You know, I basically met a girl and ran away to the circus.

0:40.3

You know, it was like my version of a midlife crisis.

0:43.0

It was like I met a beautiful young woman and pitched it all.

0:47.0

Screenwriter Aline Brasch McKenna has written hits like The Devil Wears Prada and 27 dresses.

0:52.7

She wasn't looking to work in TV, but then she stumbled across

0:56.1

satirical musical YouTube videos posted by a performer named Rachel Bloom. She tells us how

1:02.4

Love at First song led to the creation of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend on the CW. But first on the news banter,

1:09.3

not one, not two, not three, but four Avatar sequels.

1:13.3

Someday, stay tuned, it's the business from KCRW.

1:21.4

I am joined by my fellow banterer, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter.

1:25.1

Hello, Matt.

1:25.9

Hello there.

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