The Mother-Daughter Writing Partners behind 'Huge'
The Business
KCRW
4.5 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2010
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Veteran television producer Winnie Holzman and Savannah Dooley go from being mother and daughter to writing partners. They run the ABC Family dramedy Huge, which is set in a weight-loss camp for teens. While Holzman is an old hand at TV this is the first project by 25-year-old Dooley. Because of her inexperience the network paired her with her mom. Matt Holzman, Executive Producer of The Business, talks with the mother-daughter team about making Huge a family affair, their particular writing-partner fights, and nepotism in Hollywood.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Matt Holesman sitting in for Kinmasters, and this is the business. |
| 0:08.2 | You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want next time. |
| 0:13.8 | Everybody takes his own business, business really, really, all my life. |
| 0:19.6 | What's with him? |
| 0:22.3 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood. |
| 0:25.3 | This week on the business, what happens when a TV network greenlights a new show |
| 0:29.6 | and hires a new writer and her showbiz mom to produce it? |
| 0:33.8 | Stick around. |
| 0:34.5 | It's the business from KCRW. |
| 0:43.3 | You can imagine Hollywood everything is really driven by making money. |
| 0:44.2 | What's with him? |
| 0:47.9 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood, Hollywood. |
| 0:52.0 | I'm joined by John Horn of the Los Angeles Times. |
| 0:52.6 | Hello, John. |
| 0:53.3 | Hello, Matt. |
| 0:53.7 | How are you? Well, I'm fine, |
| 0:55.3 | but the people who produce Scott Pilgrim versus the world probably aren't fine. I would say |
| 1:00.5 | they're worse than not fine. This is a very interesting case study in how everything can seem to |
| 1:07.5 | go right and then nothing does. This is a film that is based on a not popular, but a beloved graphic novel series. |
| 1:14.5 | It debuted at Comic-Con International in San Diego several weeks back. |
| 1:19.3 | Reviews were generally very positive. |
| 1:21.9 | Super popular stars, Michael Sarah and Jason Schwartzman. |
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