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The Thanksgiving Primetime Grid and a Conversation with Ben Smith of ‘Treadstone’ | The Watch

The Watch

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Tv & Film

4.55.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Chris lays out a night of television for you to watch during the holiday weekend including ‘Mrs. Fletcher,’ ‘Servant,’ and ‘Condor’ (1:02). Then he sits down with the producer of ‘Treadstone,’ Ben Smith, to talk about what it is like to create a show within the Jason Bourne universe (16:32) and the logistics of shooting a show in so many different locations (30:02). Host: Chris Ryan Guest: Ben Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.9

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0:10.3

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0:35.6

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0:40.6

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0:44.4

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1:14.4

I'm staying here on Wednesday when you're hearing this.

1:18.1

And today's episode features my interview with Ben Smith, the showrunner for USA's Treadstone.

1:27.1

On the kind of Jason Bourne Universe going back a lot to the Robert Lundle novels that those

1:32.3

beloved movies are based on. It's a really interesting show. It kind of combines some of the panic

1:38.8

sweet panic room vibes of the born movies where you've got a lot of CIA operatives in

1:45.6

surveillance offices checking out various European and American cities

1:51.6

yelling at each other, clearing the room. And then you've got a lot of like almost,

1:56.5

I would say 24 style thriller action going on. So it's essentially like a couple of shows in one.

2:01.7

It actually is two shows in one as it takes on two different timelines. One is set in the 70s and

2:06.6

one cent in the contemporary times. And it's about a group of basically assassins being

2:13.7

awoken and what they're being awoken to do is the subject matter of the show. So it's a really

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