Showrunner Courtney Kemp on ‘Power,’ the most-watched series on Starz
The Business
KCRW
4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Courtney Kemp, creator of the Starz drama ‘Power,’ is one of the few women of color running her own TV show. With the push for increased diversity in the industry, Kemp says it’s easier for networks to open their wallets than their hearts. As 'Power' returns for a 5th season, Kemp gets real about being a parent and a showrunner, and how she wishes her series had been marketed differently in earlier seasons.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business. |
| 0:04.8 | You can have a million black shows in development on your network. |
| 0:10.1 | Have you ever had a person of color to your home as a guest? |
| 0:14.6 | All I'm saying is that there is money to be made off of us and by us |
| 0:20.4 | that has nothing to do with, I've opened my mind. |
| 0:24.7 | As the creator of the star's drama of power, Courtney Kemp is one of the few women of |
| 0:28.8 | color running her own TV show. Amid the push for increased diversity in the industry, |
| 0:33.5 | she's heard a lot of network executives talking the talk, but she hasn't seen too many walking the walk. |
| 0:39.5 | Kemp tells us how she went from being a Shakespeare-loving kid in affluent Westport, Connecticut, |
| 0:44.2 | to running a gritty, violent drama with the rapper, 50 cent. |
| 0:48.4 | But first on the news banter, NBC News, misses another sexual misconduct story. |
| 0:53.8 | Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. |
| 1:00.3 | I'm joined by my partner in banter, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood Reporter, |
| 1:04.2 | who is taking a break from his vacation, sneaking off to banter a little bit. |
| 1:08.3 | Hello, Matt. |
| 1:09.0 | Hi there. |
| 1:09.9 | Let's talk a little bit about the Fox News developments in these past few days. |
| 1:15.1 | Bill Shine, who was the former top Fox News executive, co-president. |
| 1:19.7 | He resigned in May 2017 amidst all of the scandal surrounding Roger Ailes |
| 1:25.6 | and this environment at the network of sexual harassment, |
| 1:28.9 | and they really made a systematic effort to cover for Roger Ailes and spy on people who dared |
| 1:34.4 | to criticize or might be liabilities. Bill Shun was involved with a lot of that. He left, as I said, |
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