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The Business

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The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.5699 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2010

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Fox TV chief Kevin Reilly tells it like it is about the high-stakes game that is pilot season: the chemistry of casting, going with your gut and the sweaty palms you get when trying to sell new shows to advertisers.

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0:00.0

From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

0:07.0

You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want next time.

0:12.6

Everybody takes your business, business really, really, all white life.

0:18.5

He doesn't clean, clean.

0:20.2

What's with him?

0:21.1

Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood. This week on the business, What's with him? Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood.

0:23.3

This week on the business, it's the high-stakes game of making television.

0:27.2

Fox TV chief Kevin Riley tells it like it is about pilot season.

0:31.6

The chemistry of casting, going with your gut, and the sweaty palms you get when you have to sell new shows to a room full of advertisers.

0:39.8

But first, it's the Hollywood News banter.

0:41.9

Stay close. It's the business from KCRW.

0:46.5

You can imagine Hollywood everything is really driven by making money.

0:51.6

What's with him?

0:52.4

Where?

0:53.1

Oh, I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood. I'm joined in the studio by my fellow banterer, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times.

1:00.2

Hello, John.

1:01.1

Hello, Kim.

1:02.4

So, Disney Marketing.

1:04.0

I have to tell you one of my favorite stories.

1:06.6

Go ahead.

1:07.5

I'm all yours.

1:08.4

So they hired Rich Ross, who was the head of the Disney Channel, to run the studio, an outsider, a TV guy, very successful at the Disney Channel.

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