Ep. 48: Pick Your Battles With ABC Studios Exec Juan Alfonso

Happier in Hollywood

Lemonada Media

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Careers

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Liz and Sarah are in post production! They discuss the crazy schedule, how they're sitting around A LOT, and the excruciating focus group testing process. In Name That Hollywood Job, ABC Studios VP of Drama Development Juan Alfonso discusses the development process. His advice to writers working with a network or studio: Don't come in with an "us vs. them" attitude. Finally, this week's Hollywood Hack comes from The Fix hair stylists Dugg Kirkpatrick and Myo Lai: Osis powder and Oribe dry texture spray keep your hair voluminous and fabulous. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, who's having a drink?
0:04.0	I think I'm doing a martini.
0:07.0	Oh, you two?
0:08.0	You're the martini seeker.
0:10.0	Yes, the martini scene of our pilot.
0:13.0	We should have martinis.
0:15.0	Everybody in?
0:16.0	Yeah, definitely.
0:18.0	Hi, and welcome to Happier and Hollywood, the podcast about how to be happier, healthier,
0:31.0	sainter, more creative, more successful, and more productive in a backbiting, superficial,
0:35.0	chaotic, unpredictable, fundamentally insane world.
0:39.0	I'm Sarah Fane, a TV writer and producer living in LA, and with me is my high school friend and writing partner of 18 years Liz.
0:46.0	That's me, Liz Kraft.
0:48.0	On this podcast, we talk about being writers in Hollywood, how we balance a career and friendship,
0:53.0	and how to survive the war of attrition that is life and Los Angeles.
0:57.0	And today, we are live at one of the fixed locations where near paramount studios in the heart of Hollywood.
1:06.0	So there'll be some ambient sound that we don't have in the studio.
1:10.0	And today, we're going to talk about post production, which we are about to move into.
1:15.0	What is it, and why is it so hellish?
1:19.0	So many reasons.
1:21.0	And we'll get into them all.
1:23.0	Then we're going to talk to one of our very favorite development executives, Juan Alfonso of ABC Studios.
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