Interview With "The Diplomat" Creator, Executive Producer, Showrunner & Writer Debora Cahn

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

"The Diplomat" is one of Netflix's hottest shows as its first season garnered star Keri Russell award nominations from the Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globes, and Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. The second season premiered to critical acclaim once again and has so far received more Critics' Choice, Golden Globe, and SAG Award nominations than the first season. Creator, Executive Producer, Showrunner, and Writer Debora Cahn was kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about her experience working on the second season, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the series, which is now available to stream in full on Netflix. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Giovanni Lago's interview with the creator, executive producer, showrunner, and writer for The Diplomat, Deborah Khan.
0:11.0	Explosion in central London.
0:14.0	Can we find the Home Secretary?
0:15.6	I'd like to be able to tell the ambassador whether her husband is alive or dead.
0:20.5	Can you hear me?
0:21.6	No.
0:23.6	The American ambassador was nearly widowed last time.
0:26.6	This was Russia. They've attacked us at sea and at home.
0:30.6	You can still leave me.
0:32.6	I'd leave me for him.
0:33.6	Did you sleep with him?
0:34.6	No.
0:35.6	Are you planning to?
0:36.6	Yeah.
0:38.3	The Tory Party has received donations from Russian sources.
0:42.3	If members of my government are involved, it could be anywhere.
0:45.3	The call is coming from inside the house.
0:48.3	And three Americans just got blown up inside the house.
0:51.3	The last time we surveilled one of these, it almost ended in NATO.
0:56.0	Everything is pointing to him.
0:59.0	I should have knocked.
1:02.0	Hello everyone, this is the next best series podcast.
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