EMPIRE's Ilene Chaiken
The Writers Panel
Ben Blacker
4.7 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2015
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
The showrunner of Fox's hit Empire and the creator of Showtime's The L Word, Ilene Chaiken talks about the similarities between these shows, her years as a development executive for Aaron Spelling, how the Empire room tries to be true to the voices of creators Danny Strong and Lee Daniels, writing characters over time, and the joys of Cookie.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, wait a minute. Who's this guy? It's me, Todd Cooper. Your favorite, Orly's favorite curtain man for The Thrilling Adventure Hour. |
| 0:07.3 | Hey, do you like The Thrilling Adventure Hour? Do you even love The Thrilling Adventure Hour? |
| 0:12.8 | Well, if you do, and that's why you're listening to it, probably, guess what you're going to really like? |
| 0:17.6 | The Thrilling Adventure Hour in comic book form. |
| 0:26.0 | Yeah, the number one old-time radio show and new time podcast is for the first time ever a contemporary monthly comic book. |
| 0:27.9 | The Thrilling Adventure Hour, Sparks Nevada, Marshall on Mars comic book, is available at a |
| 0:32.7 | virtual or actual, like, brick-and-mortar comic bookstore near you as of February 18th, 2015. |
| 0:40.4 | It's written by Acker and Blacker, the ones who write the show that you like. |
| 0:43.5 | It's the perfect compliment to this podcast, the one I just mentioned again. |
| 0:47.8 | The comic story, The Sad Sad Song of Widow Johnson is an all-new, never-been podcast tale that fits right within the continuity of Sparks, Nevada, |
| 0:54.9 | Marshall on Mars. |
| 0:55.8 | Where in the continuity? |
| 0:57.3 | Well, read it and find out. |
| 1:00.1 | Yeah, it's your job. |
| 1:01.1 | Thrilling Adventure Hour Comics. |
| 1:03.1 | Our jump into the next medium is brought to you by Work Juice. |
| 1:06.5 | Oh, by the way, if you're in L.A., lucky you, you little thing. |
| 1:10.6 | Come hang out with Acker and Blacker and some work juice players and special guests. |
| 1:15.5 | Hint, hint, I'll be there. |
| 1:17.3 | And get variant editions of the Sparks comic, including books with a photo cover. |
| 1:22.8 | Yeah, and a cover with art by Jamie McKelvey. |
| 1:25.9 | Woo! |
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