Showrunner Jill Soloway on Amazon’s “Transparent”
The Business
KCRW
4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Writer and producer Jill Soloway traces how she went from being second-in-command on cable shows to creating the most-binged series on Amazon.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
| 0:06.9 | After the requisite, I love you. I hope you understand that I'll always love you. I'm so proud of you. |
| 0:11.7 | It was the sort of tiny voice of like, I think you've got a TV show. |
| 0:16.2 | When writer and director Jill Salloway's parent came out as transgender, inspiration struck. |
| 0:21.6 | Her show Transparent is now the most bingeed series in Amazon's history. |
| 0:25.6 | But first on the news banter, DreamWorks is left at the altar again, |
| 0:29.6 | and Bill Cosby stays silent when asked about allegations of sexual assault. |
| 0:34.6 | Stay tuned, it's the business from KCRW. |
| 0:45.9 | I am joined by my partner in banter, Michael Schneider of TV Guide magazine. Hello, Michael. |
| 0:55.5 | Hello, Kim. So Michael DreamWorks has been left at the altar again. There was a story which I broke about soft bank and negotiation with this Japanese conglomerate to buy DreamWorks animation. That fell apart really within a couple of days after I |
| 1:01.5 | wrote about it. And now a second story, Hasbro, the toy company, in talks with DreamWorks. And |
| 1:07.9 | within two days of that story breaking, that deal also had been ground to a halt. Yeah, on paper at least, a DreamWorks, and within two days of that story breaking, that deal also had been ground to a halt. |
| 1:13.1 | Yeah, on paper at least, a DreamWorks animation Hasbro merger made a lot of sense. |
| 1:17.7 | You know, DreamWorks has some great properties, starting with Shrek. |
| 1:21.2 | Hasbro, obviously, the second largest toy manufacturer in the country. |
| 1:25.8 | Together, you know, you get more toys into stores, and Hasbro for years |
| 1:29.5 | has been looking to really make a splash in entertainment. So far, their results have been mixed. They've |
| 1:35.3 | run a network with Discovery, which really went nowhere called The Hub, which doesn't even exist |
| 1:40.1 | anymore. But they've had some success as well with transferring some of their franchises into |
| 1:45.9 | big movie properties like Transformers. So together, they would have made sense, but obviously |
| 1:50.8 | it wasn't meant to be. Yeah, and up to a point they made. I mean, I'd say at a glance, it makes |
| 1:56.2 | sense, and in some ways it makes sense, but Hasbro does a lot of a business with Disney, and Disney and DreamWorks |
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