4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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The dramedy UnREAL, now in its second season, is a major departure from the typical Lifetime fare. The series co-creator Sarah Gertrude Shapiro tells us how her past experience working on The Bachelor led to the creation of a show all about the behind-the-scenes machinations of a reality TV producer.
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0:00.0 | On To the Point, we try to make sense of the policy debates and the political side shows on the campaign trail. |
0:06.4 | Donald Trump is probably the most significant thing to happen to the religious right in a few decades. |
0:12.1 | OMG, this guy is actually a bigot. |
0:14.5 | If she becomes president, no one since Richard Nixon would have been on the national stage that long and won the White House. |
0:21.4 | I'm Warren Alney. |
0:22.2 | To the Point has you covered for the 2016 campaign? |
0:25.3 | Find the To the Point podcast on KCRW's iTunes page. |
0:30.7 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
0:37.0 | It's really, I think, intoxicating for a woman who's working, you know, 90-hour weeks |
0:41.4 | to sit down and see somebody just flown around on a helicopter and taking care of just because she's pretty. |
0:46.0 | As a young woman starting out in television, ardent feminist Sarah Gertrude Shapiro found herself |
0:51.3 | almost conscripted to work as a producer on The Bachelor, and she does |
0:55.8 | understand the show's appeal. Today we're revisiting our conversation with Shapiro. She tells us how |
1:01.0 | she mind her ambivalence about her experience on The Bachelor to create the Lifetime series Unreal, |
1:07.3 | a critically acclaimed dromedy now in its second season. But first on the news banter, |
1:12.2 | the 4th of July holiday weekend, seems unlikely to address Hollywood's box office blues. |
1:17.8 | Stay tuned, it's the business from KCRW. |
1:27.4 | I am joined by my partner in 4th of July banter, Matt Bellany, of the Hollywood reporter. |
1:32.4 | Hello, Matt. |
1:33.0 | Hi there. |
1:33.9 | So, as we're speaking now, we're cruising into the Fourth of July weekend. |
1:38.1 | We do have some box office forecasts, unless they're wildly inaccurate. |
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