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The Business

Married showrunners in rival universes; 'Amanda Knox' directors

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

TV writer-producers and married couple Marc Guggenheim and Tara Butters recently found themselves running shows on opposite sides of the superhero wars: Butters at Marvel's Agent Carter and Guggenheim at DC Comics' Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow. Plus, the directors of the new Amanda Knox Netflix documentary on their quest to go beyond salacious headlines. 

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0:00.0

L.A. has the largest jail system in the country.

0:05.0

You got people that've been in jail just like one time and their life can't get nothing because of whatever mistake they made.

0:11.0

I stole some ground turkey because I wanted to feed my family. We was hungry.

0:15.0

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0:24.4

Find it now at kCRW.com or subscribe on iTunes.

0:36.7

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

0:41.3

There are times where, like, I would look at Agent Agent Carter and I'd be very jealous of Tara's budget. It's all in good fun, though. We are fans of each other's work.

0:44.3

So it's hard to be in competition with someone who actually, like, writes the kind of stuff you wish you were writing.

0:51.3

For married couple Mark Guggenheim and Tara Butters,

0:54.7

the rivalry between Marvel and DC Comics got personal.

0:58.5

Guggenheim was producing the DC Comics show Arrow for the C.W. with Greg Berlanti,

1:03.7

while Butters was showrunner on Marvel's Agent Carter on ABC.

1:08.1

The couple talks about what it's like to work in the competing universes. Then the

1:13.0

filmmakers of the new Netflix documentary Amanda Knox knew they couldn't make their film until they

1:18.0

could get Knox herself to talk to them. Given that she was on trial for murder in Italy,

1:23.5

that meant waiting years. But first on the news banter, wedding bells for Viacom and CBS.

1:29.5

Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW.

1:37.9

I am joined by my partner in banter, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter.

1:41.9

Hello, Matt.

1:42.4

Hi there.

1:43.3

So the big news this past week has been

1:46.0

the letter that has been dispatched by national amusements, the company that oversees both Viacom and

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