4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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The Netflix series 'Unbelievable' is based on a true story about how one team of cops pursued a serial rapist while another disbelieved and bullied a victim. Showrunner Susannah Grant tells us about turning a Pulitzer Prize winning news story into a scripted series. She also shares her thoughts on how to depict rape on screen and talks about speaking with the victim whose story is at the heart of the series.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
0:04.7 | It's all part of the same conversation, you know? |
0:07.3 | There've been a lot of ugly truths we've all been living with, |
0:11.6 | and we're at a point now, I think, where we're starting to be willing to look at them. |
0:16.6 | The Harvey Weinstein revelations broke when Susanna Grant was already writing her Netflix series, |
0:21.4 | Unbelievable, based on a true story about how one team of cops pursued a serial rapist, |
0:26.6 | while another disbelieved and bullied a victim. |
0:30.1 | In the hectic aftermath of the Weinstein exposés, Netflix asked Grant, |
0:34.4 | does this change anything about your project? |
0:36.6 | She said, no. Grant tells us about the |
0:39.3 | challenge of turning a news story from ProPublica and the Marshall Project into a scripted series. She |
0:45.1 | also shares her thoughts on how to depict rape on screen and talks about what she did and did not |
0:50.4 | discuss with the victim whose story is at the heart of the series. But first on the news banter, |
0:55.6 | Peacock struts into a crowded field. Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW. |
1:05.9 | I am joined by my colleague in banter, Matt Bellany, of the Hollywood Reporter. Hello, Matt. |
1:11.1 | Hi there. |
1:11.7 | So, all we talk about now is the new streaming services. That's it. We're going to change the name of the show to the streaming services. So that's it. So we already have, obviously, Netflix came in and really has a humongous advantage in terms of how many subscribers it has, even if it's not adding them as quickly as projected. |
1:29.1 | We have other companies, the old guard media companies, betting the farm on their new streaming |
1:34.7 | services. WarnerMedia is doing HBO Max. Disney is doing their Disney Plus for $7 a month. These |
1:41.4 | things, the price points are all over the place. This is going to be a tricky one for consumers until it somehow gets sorted out. |
1:47.7 | We have Apple, of course. |
1:48.9 | They're new into it and coming with $5 a month or free if you have a new Apple device. |
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