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The Treatment

Nancy Miller

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2009

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Writer Nancy Miller (The Closer, CSI: Miami) sets her shows outside the LA-New York universe and gives them a deeper view of character. Saving Grace, set in Oklahoma, is about a copy bedeviled by an angel.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

0:13.8

Welcome to The Treatment.

0:15.0

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

0:15.9

You can also hear the show at KCRW.com.

0:19.0

Nancy Miller sets her shows outside of the L.A. New York universe, and I think gives

0:23.0

her her shows a deeper sense of character as a result of that. Her newest show, Saving Grace

0:27.5

on T&T, set in Oklahoma City. It's about a cop who happens to be bedeviled by an angel.

0:34.1

Nancy, first of all, thanks for being here.

0:35.7

Thank you, Elvis. And tell the audience a little bit about this show because it really is a fascinating take on cop drama.

0:43.2

It's really a story about this woman who has no relationship with God.

0:49.4

She's a cop, a detective in Oklahoma City who sees the worst of humanity every day.

0:55.8

And this angel comes to her and tells her, you better get your stuff together.

1:01.7

Because if you don't, you're headed to a place you don't want to go.

1:06.5

And Grace hasn't really thought about God in a long time.

1:10.8

So this shakes up her world.

1:13.6

It's also a show, too, I think, in a lot of ways, about the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing

1:19.2

and how it really happens to be a city that's kind of beset by the repercussions of that still all these years later, isn't it?

1:26.1

Absolutely.

1:27.0

I was here when the Oklahoma

1:29.6

City bombing happened, and I didn't leave my house for three days. I just sat in front of my TV

1:35.2

and wept. I knew people in that building, and I knew some of the rescuers, and it's a story that I wanted to tell.

1:48.6

I've never been so proud of my home state and so heartbroken at the same time.

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