4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage made ‘The O.C.’ and ‘Gossip Girl’--some of the most defining young adult shows of the early 2000’s. They continue to create series about young-person angst, including a ‘Gossip Girl’ reboot for HBO Max. They tell us about their new young adult series on Hulu, ‘Looking for Alaska,’ which they first had dreams of making into a movie 14 years ago.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business. |
0:04.0 | We get older, but the cast stay the same age to paraphrase Matthew McConae. |
0:07.0 | And so now we're working with actors who were not necessarily born when Gossip Girl first premiered, or O.C. first premiered or were quite young then. |
0:15.0 | So they want to know what the aughts were like. |
0:18.0 | Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage created the OC and Gossip Girl, |
0:22.2 | some of the most defining young adult shows of the early 2000s. |
0:26.1 | As they continue to make shows about young adult angst, |
0:29.4 | they also confront the passage of time. |
0:32.4 | Savage and Schwartz tell us about their new series looking for Alaska, |
0:35.8 | a coming-of-age story set in the ancient days of |
0:38.3 | 2005. They first dreamed of a film adaptation of John Green's novel of the same name 14 years ago. |
0:45.4 | They tell us how they finally managed to turn it into a limited series on Hulu. |
0:49.8 | The team behind the CW's Nancy Drew and an upcoming Gossip Girl remake for HBO Max also |
0:56.5 | explains why they actually shrink their production company. |
1:00.0 | But first on the news banter, Rose McGowan sues Harvey Weinstein and Lisa Bloom and a whole |
1:05.6 | bunch of others. |
1:06.7 | Stick around. |
1:07.4 | It's the business from KCRW. |
1:14.0 | I am joined by my partner in banter, Matt Bellany, of the Hollywood reporter. Hello, Matt. |
1:19.8 | So, Rose McGowan has now sued Harvey Weinstein, and she, of course, has alleged for some time that he raped her, and she's among many women who have alleged that he assaulted them. |
1:29.4 | She's also naming David Boyes, his lawyer, advisor, slash enabler, and Lisa Bloom, a supposed women's rights lawyer who became another Harvey Enabler, tried to help him launder his terrible reputation. |
1:43.2 | She is suing them. She's claiming that they engaged in a |
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