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

But something happened there when I was lying in the bed, because, you know, they give you

opiates and then you don't sleep for days. And then I was like, I want to be a boss. And I

remember my ceiling, just feel like, I'm going to live and I'm going to be a boss. And then it

happened. Soon after Latin ex-playwright Tanya Saracho got the green light to make a pilot for her

first TV series, she contracted a dangerous spinal infection.

But Saracho rallied, and her spicy series, Vita, premiered on the Stars Channel earlier this year.

And she's just started production on a second season.

For the holiday weekend, we're revisiting our conversation with Saracho.

A former Chicago-based playwright, she tells us about her horrible first experiences as a TV writer

and how she ended up running the first all Latinx writer's room in cable.

But first we banter.

Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my fellow banterer, Matt Bellany, of the Hollywood reporter.

Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

So big news in terms of NBC News.

This has been somewhat of an ongoing story in that we've seen NBC News miss the huge

Access Hollywood story, which they had for a long time before the Washington Post broke it.

And by the long time, I mean a few days, but in the news business, that is a long time.

We've seen them have a scandal with Matt Lauer's conduct, which they then investigated in-house and exonerated themselves.

And of course, one of the really big ones also has been the Ronan Farrow, Harvey Weinstein's story.

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