Inside Abbott Elementary and Harley Quinn with Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker
/Film Weekly
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4.4 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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On the February 28, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson presents an interview with Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker, the executive producers of “Abbott Elementary” and “Harley Quinn.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily for Tuesday |
| 0:02.4 | February 28th 2023 on today's episode of the show we're going to present an |
| 0:06.8 | interview that I did recently my name is Ben Pearson I'm an editor at slash film |
| 0:10.1 | com and on today's show it's just going to be an interview that I did with Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacher, the executive producers of two of my favorite shows on TV right now, Abbott Elementary and Harley Quinn. Wildly different shows, Abbott Elementary and Harley Quinn. |
| 0:22.8 | Wildly different shows, Abbott Elementary of course, |
| 0:25.4 | like a major network hits on ABC. |
| 0:28.1 | And Harley Quinn is this R-rated animated show |
| 0:31.6 | that is on HBO Max, it's in the DC universe, two totally different types of things, but there is a through line that really runs through this work, which I think is representative of the work that Halpern and Chumacher have done together previously. |
| 0:45.7 | They've worked on a bunch of shows before. |
| 0:48.0 | There's a really great sense of humor. |
| 0:50.5 | Obviously, both of these shows are comedies, but shows really you get the sense that the |
| 0:55.6 | writers really care about the characters even the sort of tertiary ones on the sides. |
| 1:00.7 | I love both of these shows they're really terrific it's really kind of mind-boggling that these two people are some of the |
| 1:06.2 | creative forces behind this. For Abbott Elementary, Quinta Bronson, who is the lead of the show, is the creator of that series but she sort of co-show runs |
| 1:16.4 | Abbott Elementary with Halpern and Schumacher. And then for Harley Quinn, |
| 1:21.6 | they ran the first, I believe it was the first two seasons with Dean |
| 1:24.9 | Lorry and then took over as the, I guess, co-show runners just running that as a |
| 1:30.6 | joint unit in season three, and then the upcoming season four they're going to be |
| 1:35.6 | passing the torch to writer producer Sarah Peters who has worked with them on a bunch of episodes of |
| 1:40.8 | Harley Quinn before so they are going to be putting more of |
| 1:44.1 | their focus on Abbott Elementary going forward, but right now we catch them at |
| 1:48.8 | this really cool nexus point of their work sort of spilling over into both of these shows and being hugely involved. |
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