From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

I just want to write something today.

But of course, then the pandemic hit, and you're like, what is that going to even look like?

Is everyone going to be wearing masks?

Are we going to be in quarantine?

Like, to write a show set contemporary world has its own obstacles now that I haven't even considered.

Davy Waller wrote for Mad Men and Halt and Catch

Fire before creating the FX Limited series Mrs. America about the 1970s battle over the Equal

Rights Amendment. After working on three meticulously crafted period dramas, Waller was thinking

she was ready to set her next project in the present. But is she?

Waller talks about tackling the complicated character of Phyllis Schlafly,

the woman who led the movement that ultimately blocked ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment and the complications of finishing post-production on Mrs. America while under stay-at-home orders.

But first on the news banter, is Universal going to keep the window open?

Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my regular partner in banter, Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt.

Hi there. So, as you may recall, as you have a toddler in April, Universal said,

hey, we are going to put trolls, which was poised for theatrical release on demand for 20 bucks,

give or take. And, you know, you have a 48-hour window to watch it. You're at home with your kids,

and your kids are bouncing off the walls and you will do almost

anything. So we're doing this. This has been a thing where many people, we've talked about it

before, say, well, why don't they put all the movies on demand? Well, the reason is because many of them

are much too expensive and you will never ever, it is believed, and I think will be demonstrated,

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