From KCRW, I'm Matt Holsman, filling in for Kim Masters, and this is the business.

Shonda wrote a really persuasive note to ABC saying, listen, you air actual rape. You air the actual violence.

You don't have a problem with the violence. This is the medicine. And we need to be able to show it in full. So respectfully, we declined this note.

When Gray's Anatomy showrunner Krista Vernoff submitted a script this season that included

a more than two-minute long, uninterrupted scene of a patient undergoing a rape kit exam,

ABC's standards and practices department wanted some changes.

The show's creator stepped in and pushed

back. Vernav and Elizabeth Finch, the writer of that episode, recently sat down to talk about what

happened with Leslie Goldberg of the Hollywood Reporter. They discuss how they ultimately got their

powerful episode about sexual consent to air as written and provide a peek at their process for breaking

new ground on Grey's Anatomy, which recently overtook ER as the longest running medical

drama in primetime TV history. But first on the news banter, comedies in crisis. Stay tuned.

It's the business from KCRW.

I'm Matt Bellany, filling in for Kim Masters, and I'm joined by my partner in banter this week, Brooks Barnes of the New York Times.

Hello, Brooks.

Hey, Matt.

So this summer, we've seen an interesting phenomenon at the box office.

Comedies are just failing. And it happened recently with the Mindy Kaling comedy late night, which got a lot of buzz out of Sundance and sold for $13 million,

and its first weekend of wide release made about $5 million, not good for Amazon, which was releasing

it. And it's just one after another, POMS, which was an older female

skewing comedy and The Hustle with Anne Hathaway and Longshot with Seth Rogen and Charlize

Theron. One after another, these movies aren't working. And then the question becomes, why?

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