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From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

It's the Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

You may think my guest, writer, producer, director, Greg Belanti, is somebody who specializes in the coming of age stories.

You've seen Everwood, or he got his start on Dawson's Creek, or one of my favorite shows on what used to be called back in the 20th century, the WB, Jack and Bobby.

He brought one of those characters from Jack and Bobby with a name to the show,

Brothers and Sisters, when he ran that show for a while. I'm geeking out here. But you now

can know him since, I guess, three years ago now, as a man who's been developing DC Comics

characters for television. He first brought Arrow to the small screen a couple of seasons ago. And this

year, his newest triumph and one of my

favorite shows around is his adaptation of the old DC comic favorite The Flash. First of all, Greg,

thanks for being here. Thanks so much for having me. It's really exciting. One of the things I'd

mentioned even when I met you a few months ago and that I like about what you've done with Flash,

you've taken it back to the show's origins of being sort of rooted in science, but having a

really kind of a light on this, I hate these that term phrase, but it's really got kind of a pop

exuberance to it, the kind of lightness that the old run of the Flash had when it was developed by John Brum and Carmine Infantino in the 60s? Yeah, I mean, you know, our hope always was for it that it would have a lot of the qualities

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