Replay: Damon Lindelof’s ‘Watchmen’

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The nominations for the 2020 Emmy Awards have been released, and HBO’s “Watchmen” leads with 26 nominations, including Outstanding Limited Series. KCRW revisists host Kim Masters’ interview with showrunner Damon Lindelof.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.
0:07.2	It's that time of year again, the TV Academy has announced its Emmy nominations.
0:12.3	Leading the pack as the show with the most nominations, 26, including Outstanding Limited Series,
0:18.6	was HBO's Watchman, created by Damon Lindelof. This week, we revisit our
0:23.3	interview with him from last fall. I love writers room where there's a lot of pushback. I only hire
0:28.6	people who think I'm an idiot. It turns out they're not too hard to find. I'm going to say,
0:33.1	there are lots of those. But, you know, when I was interviewing writers, I would pitch them these ideas.
0:39.4	And the writers who said, I love that.
0:41.3	That's amazing.
0:42.4	Let's do that.
0:42.9	I can't wait to go.
0:43.8	I didn't hire them.
0:44.5	Right.
0:44.7	You're fired before I hired you.
0:46.3	The ones who are like, I'm a little concerned about this.
0:49.5	It's interesting, but I'm a little concerned.
0:52.0	They were the ones that I hired. And thank God I did.
0:54.5	But first on the news banter, the pandemic is giving NBCUNY a chance to expedite some big changes.
1:00.4	Stay tuned.
1:01.1	It's the business from KCRW.
1:08.7	I am joined by my colleague in banter, Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt.
1:12.7	Hi there.
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