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Side Effects of Being a Showrunner (with Courtney Kemp)

Smart Funny & Black Productions

Amanda Seales

Kids & Family, Performing Arts, Arts, Education For Kids, Visual Arts

4.89.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk to Courtney Kemp, creator of Starz TV series Power (and its three subsequent spinoffs), about what it takes to call the shots.
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0:00.0

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0:56.9

Welcome to another episode of Small Doses. This one is Long Over Do. It was long over

1:11.8

do when we met in person. Now it's long overdue that we're on the pod. Today we have writer

1:18.1

extraordinaire creator and showrunner Courtney Kemp, creator of the power universe. Not just

1:26.0

a show, but this is show. The universe. That's quite a feat. Thank you. I'm really happy to be

1:36.1

here as you well know. I am a gigantic fan of yours. Both in stature and in devotion.

1:45.0

Dido. Me and Courtney, we had DMs and DMs and then finally I was like, we should actually

1:59.0

meet in person and then we sat down and very quickly identified. We are on the same dimensional

2:05.7

plane, which is very comforting, particularly in this town that we're in. In that one

2:14.9

lunch, you dropped many a gem. Oh gosh. I don't remember. You dropped many a gem and particularly

2:23.5

two of them have been incredibly helpful in my being a developing producer on another

2:29.1

level because I've been very DIY. I mean, I've produced my own stuff DIY, but at present

2:35.0

I am in transition. The ropes one has to learn them. Yes. You have really successfully

2:48.0

managed to crack the code for yourself in terms of creating content that is what you want

2:56.7

to do, which I think is not always the case. Some people might be getting show sold, but

3:01.8

they really like should they actually care about they're just like, I'm just getting a

3:05.6

check or whatever. But there's also a component in there and that's what we're going to talk

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