'American Gods' showrunners Bryan Fuller and Michael Green

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The novel American Gods features countless mythological characters gearing up to fight an epic battle. The writer-producers of the new adaptation on Starz were determined to do justice to the book -- even if that meant constantly moving production and pushing the budget. Showrunners Michael Green and Bryan Fuller tell us why they're not worried about critics who say the show is confusing, and go into the thinking behind an especially memorable, explicit sex scene.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.
0:04.6	Yeah, it said you don't have to have nudity, but if you do make sure that it's both male and female, because we're aware of perceptions of certain networks and certain shows that are primarily female nudity and no male nudity.
0:20.6	And we're like, consider it done.
0:22.5	Showrunners Brian Fuller and Michael Green were more than ready to go full frontal
0:26.6	with their new stars series American Gods,
0:29.6	even if not all the actors were ready to take that plunge.
0:33.5	Green and Fuller tell us about their earlier heartbreaks on broadcast shows,
0:38.0	adapting an epic novel that had been considered unfilmable,
0:41.8	and yes, how they finally got an actor to drop his towel.
0:45.9	But first on the news banter, the cast of Will & Grace sings and dances while Roseanne returns.
0:51.7	Don't check your calendar. It's the 2017 up fronts. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.
1:03.5	I am joined by a special guest banterer, Leslie Goldberg, of The Hollywood Reporter. She's TV news editor,
1:10.4	and she's been really busy, but she's taking some time out. This has been a week of the, this past week with TV up fronts. This is when the broadcast networks go on stage in New York at big venues and pitch their fall season to advertisers. They do these big splashy productions. The idea is give us your money, advertisers.
1:28.7	Normally they've been doing about $9 billion worth of business selling ads in the fall schedule off of this event.
1:34.8	So it's obviously a huge big deal.
1:37.2	It keeps Leslie very busy writing about new shows that are going to come on the air.
1:40.5	But before we get to some of those, it just feels like this is a really anxious time.
1:45.4	We keep, you know, for years now, it's been like, oh, the TV broadcast model is challenged.
1:50.6	And I don't know if it's just me, but I feel like all of a sudden, even though they're still
1:54.1	going to get a lot of money out of this, the advent of streaming and millions of other
1:59.0	options that people have to entertain themselves is starting
2:01.7	to suddenly be a very tangible phenomenon. Absolutely. You can feel the paradigm shifting this
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