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The Writers Panel

Graham Yost, creator and showrunner of Justified

The Writers Panel

Ben Blacker

Tv & Film, Movies, Writing, Screenwriting, Tv, Hollywood

4.7796 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2013

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Graham Yost, creator and showrunner of Justified.As part of Fast Company magazine's Most Creative People issue, Ben Blacker interviewed the showrunners and creators of some of television's most interesting and groundbreaking shows about how they're carving out new territory in the business and creative worlds, and how these creatives are driving the zeitgeist.

The issue is online http://www.fastcompany.com/most-creative-people/ and on newsstands now.


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0:00.0

Hey everyone, it's me, Ben Blacker, the creator and moderator of the Nerdist Writers Panel.

0:05.0

Thanks as ever for downloading us or streaming. I don't know how you do these things. It's up to you.

0:09.0

This is an interview with Graham Yost. This is the last of the Fast Company magazine's most creative people interviews.

0:17.0

I was so thrilled to talk to Graham again. There is no bigger justified fan than I am.

0:22.2

Unfortunately, the beginning of this interview got cut off. Graham is an executive producer on,

0:27.0

The Americans, the new FX show. And so we started out talking about that. We missed maybe the first

0:32.5

five minutes, but you'll hear kind of the end of that conversation. He's not terribly involved with the Americans these days.

0:39.6

He was very involved with the pilot and kind of shepherding it.

0:42.7

And so it comes in, the conversation comes in where we're talking about the look of the show

0:47.3

and how that was kind of created.

0:49.2

And so you'll get the end of that conversation.

0:51.2

Then we'll start talking about justified.

0:53.8

So just a warning about

0:55.3

that. We had some technical issues there. As with all of these, go to Fast Company Magazine's

1:01.7

web page, fastcompany.com slash most-creative-com people. And you can see excerpts from all of these

1:09.6

interviews, and we've put them out in the past few

1:12.0

weeks as well, and they were a lot of fun, so I have to thank Fast Company for letting me do those.

1:18.1

It was a really cool thing to do.

1:21.5

We are still continuing the Nerdist Writers Panel Comics Edition this Saturday and every Saturday. It's a little bonus episode

1:29.4

that comes out as part of this very feed. On this Saturday's edition, we talk about the psychology

1:37.0

of various characters, including Batman, the Hulk, and a very weird conversation about Richie

1:42.6

Rich. So please check that out. Don't forget to

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