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Channels with Peter Kafka

Behind the scenes with Queen’s Gambit creator Scott Frank

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

No one thought The Queen’s Gambit would be a breakout hit — including Scott Frank, the Hollywood veteran who created the Netflix show. Frank sits down with Recode’s Peter Kafka to talk about why a show about chess in the 1960s found a huge audience; what it’s like to work for and with Netflix right now; and how Hollywood is reacting to seismic change. Featuring: Scott Frank, Screenwriter Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Every year, hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world flock to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show.

1:13.6

And they spend a week trying to sell each other on the weirdest gadgets you've ever seen in your entire life.

1:18.6

This week on the Vergecast, we're talking all about everything happening at CES, from the TVs to the AI gadgets, to the humanoid robots that everybody is hoping might

1:28.0

someday do your laundry and wash your dishes. All that and much more on the Vergecast wherever you

1:33.4

get podcasts.

1:37.5

This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka. That is me. And in a minute, you're going to hear my

1:42.2

conversation with Scott Frank, who's made a ton of cool stuff over the course of his career. His most recent project is something you have heard of, and you probably have watched it because everyone has watched the Queen's Gambit. It is shockingly successful. Its success has shocked Scott. Frank. Scott's a great person to talk to about the media business because he's very happy to talk about sort of the art that goes into it and also the commerce.

2:03.9

We talk about both those things.

2:05.6

Before we get there, one quick programming note, you have noticed that there has been a lot of media news in the last week.

2:12.9

You've got mergers, you've got acquisitions.

2:15.1

You've got Warner Media trying to blow up the movie business by bringing all of its big

2:20.5

blockbuster movies to your home, day and date, it's called, via HBO Max.

2:26.2

And today, as I'm recording this, just about every state in the United States, as well as the

2:32.4

FTC, have accused Facebook of being anti-competitive.

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