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The Business

Headshots Go from Paper to Pixels; Shondaland's Betsy Beers

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

KCRW's Saul Gonzalez checks in on the headshot -- still a staple of the industry despite changing technology. And executive producer Betsy Beers tells us why she's sick of talking about diversity and how an all-woman producing duo locked down Thursday nights on ABC.

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0:00.0

On To the Point, we try to make sense of the policy debates and the political sideshows on the campaign trail.

0:05.6

Neither party's agenda really aligns with who its coalition is today.

0:09.9

It was the dumbest speech I have ever seen in my life of covering politics.

0:15.0

When people walk into a voting booth, at the end of the day, they do say,

0:19.1

I really should vote for someone smarter than me.

0:21.7

I'm Warren Alney. To the Point has you covered for the 2016 campaign. Find the To the Point

0:26.4

podcast on KCRW's iTunes page. From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters and this is the

0:35.8

business. The take from us was this is pissing us off

0:39.2

because we don't see why there should still be an award for diversity

0:42.9

and why there should need to be an award for diversity.

0:46.9

Betsy Beers is the executive producer

0:48.8

of some of television's best-rated and most diverse shows,

0:53.1

Gray's Anatomy, scandal, and and How to Get Away with Murder.

0:56.3

But when the Directors Guild gave Beers and her partner, Shonda Rhymes,

0:59.7

a diversity award, they were less than thrilled.

1:02.8

Beers tells us why she's sick of talking about diversity

1:05.5

and how an all-woman-producing duo locked down Thursday nights on ABC.

1:10.8

And KCRW's Saul Gonzalez checks in on the headshot, still a statement. producing duo locked down Thursday nights on ABC.

1:14.1

And KCRW's Saul Gonzalez checks in on the headshot,

1:17.3

still a staple of the industry despite changing technology.

1:20.3

But first on an awards-themed news banter,

1:22.6

the season struggles to find a frontrunner,

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