Frankie Shaw - 'SMILF'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2018

⏱️ 94 minutes

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The creator, showrunner, producer, writer, director and Golden Globe-nominated star of Showtime's acclaimed new comedy series, which was largely inspired by the drama of her own experience as a young single mom, reflects on her blue-collar upbringing, accidental pregnancy at 24, move to Hollywood 11 weeks into it and years of personal and professional struggle that followed — until she took matters into her own hands by making, in 2015, a short film about her experiences that won an award at Sundance and paved the way to where she is today. But first: Michael O'Connell, THR’s senior writer on television, joins Scott to preview the 2018 Emmy season. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg, recorded and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 2009th episode of Awards Ch Channel, the Hollywood Reporters Awards
0:14.0	Podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is one of the most
0:17.8	impressive new voices in the world of television, Frankie Shaw. At just 36 Shaw is the showrunner, producer, director, writer, and star of Showtime's widely acclaimed new comedy series, Smilf, which was largely inspired by the drama of her own experience as a young single mother.
0:35.0	The show's 8 episode first season began rolling out last November.
0:39.0	Its premiere attracted the highest ratings for a new Showtime comedy in five years and just weeks later it was
0:44.9	renewed for a second season which is expected in late 2018 or early 2019.
0:51.3	Back in January though Shaw received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy Series,
0:56.0	and in just a few months, Emmy nominations for Best Comedy Series, Best Directing for a Comedy
1:01.8	Series, Best Writing for a comedy series, best writing for a comedy series, and best
1:04.8	actress in a comedy series could well follow. But first I was joined at the offices
1:09.4	of the Hollywood reporter by THR Senior Writer on Television, Michael O O'Connell who was kind enough to stop
1:14.7	by to help me take my first reluctant steps a little more than a week after the 2018
1:19.1	Oscar ceremony into analyzing the landscape of the 2018 Emmy race.
1:24.0	Yes, believe it or not Emmy season is already upon us.
1:27.0	Many of the same awards consultants who were involved with Oscar campaigns
1:31.0	as well as others who weren't of of course, are already pitching members of
1:34.2	the press about Emmies coverage. The first Emmies Screener actually arrived back in
1:38.0	early February. That was promoting the audience networks Mr Mercedes, the TV
1:42.4	Academy season of FYC events kicked off
1:45.1	last Friday, March 9th with Showtime's The Shai. This week the March issue of
1:50.0	Emmys magazine arrived with a four-year consideration ad for ABC's blackish wrapped
1:55.0	around its cover and on this coming Friday March 16th Paley Fest gets underway
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