Chris + Paul Weitz explain ‘Murderbot’
The Treatment
KCRW
4.6 • 639 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Treatment, Elvis speaks with Murderbot co-creators Chris and Paul Weitz about the Apple TV+ sci-fi comedy series. Then, filmmaker Laurent Bouzereau stops by to break down his new documentary about the 50th anniversary of the summer blockbuster Jaws. And on The Treat, producer Will Packer reveals the film that gives him hope.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's the treatment. |
| 0:14.0 | It's the treatment, which could also hear at KCRW.com slash the treatment. |
| 0:18.4 | I haven't had these two gentlemen as a team before me in about 20 years. |
| 0:24.5 | The writers, directors, Paul and Chris White's are back together on a new project for Apple TV |
| 0:31.5 | Plus. |
| 0:32.6 | The show is MurderBot. |
| 0:34.1 | First of all right, thanks for being back. |
| 0:36.3 | Thanks, Elvis. |
| 0:36.8 | Thanks, Elvis. |
| 0:37.1 | And the show is really, really fun. Murder Bot. First of all, guys, thanks for being back. Thanks, Elvis. Thanks, Elvis. And see her again. |
| 0:38.3 | And the show is really, |
| 0:41.0 | really funny. |
| 0:42.3 | It's really, really funny. |
| 0:43.9 | And this thing, |
| 0:44.5 | it's the thing that you guys |
| 0:45.6 | tend to do where everything |
| 0:47.3 | is kind of a comedy of manners |
| 0:48.8 | and that you can turn |
| 0:50.3 | colonialism and wanton savagery |
| 0:53.9 | and gore into it. |
| 0:56.2 | Is it something out of thackeray? |
| 0:57.8 | Well, it is pretty funny, essentially. |
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