4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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In 2015, actor Kristoffer Polaha booked what he thought would be a one-off gig in a Hallmark TV movie. Now, he’s got 5 Hallmark films under his belt. He tells us how he and the Hallmark Channel fell in love. Then, KCRW's Matt Holzman sits down with Netflix's Lisa Nishimura. The head of original documentaries and comedy programming for the streamer tells us how she decides what will become a Netflix original.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business. |
0:05.0 | I thought I'd do one movie for them and then hop back onto a network TV series. |
0:09.6 | But Hallmark kept showing me the love. |
0:11.5 | And my wife sagely said to me, babe, go where the love is. |
0:15.5 | In 2015, actor Christopher Polaha booked what he thought would be a one-off gig and a Hallmark TV movie. |
0:22.4 | But three years later, he's got five Hallmark movies under his belt and is currently shooting his |
0:27.6 | sixth. Are they cheesy? Sure. Does Polaha care? No. He tells us how he and the Hallmark channel |
0:33.8 | fell in love. Then KCRW's Matt Holtzman took a trip to Netflix headquarters to sit down with |
0:39.9 | Lisa Nishimura, the woman you have to thank for the hours you've lost to binging, making a murderer, |
0:45.4 | or wild, wild country. The head of original documentaries and comedy programming for the streamer |
0:50.9 | tells us how she decides what will become a Netflix original documentary. |
0:55.4 | But first we banter. |
0:57.2 | Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW. |
1:06.1 | I am joined by my teammate in banter. |
1:08.9 | Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter. |
1:10.5 | Hello, Matt. Hi there. Wow. |
1:14.3 | You know, I will just acknowledge, we are retaping this because the news has been moving kind of quickly, |
1:19.9 | and I'm specifically referring to Kevin Hart as the host of the Academy Awards. That was a very short life. |
1:26.2 | I think somebody said it was like a fraction |
1:27.8 | of a scaramucci because it was so short. And I got to say, most people probably know by now, |
1:33.5 | it is hard to hire a host for the Academy Awards because it is not a great gig. I mean, |
1:38.2 | the ratings have been going down. It's much easier to fail than it is to succeed. And it's a lot of |
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