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The Business

The Unlikely Liaison; Ilene Chaiken & Michelle Ashford

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Journalist Robert Draper tells us about his profile of Kate del Castillo, the Mexican actress who served as the go-between for Sean Penn's infamous meeting with El Chapo. Then, a conversation with showrunners Michelle Ashford and Ilene Chaiken. They talk about their varied career paths that led them to overseeing their own shows.

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0:00.0

On To the Point, we try to make sense of the policy debates and the political side shows on the campaign trail.

0:06.4

Donald Trump is probably the most significant thing to happen to the religious right in a few decades.

0:12.1

OMG, this guy is actually a bigot.

0:14.5

If she becomes president, no one since Richard Nixon would have been on the national stage that long and won the White House.

0:21.4

I'm Warren Alney. To the point Point has you covered for the 2016 campaign? Find the To the Point podcast on KCRW's

0:27.7

iTunes page. From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

0:37.2

Most people start in broadcast, and then when they're really successful, they say,

0:40.9

I don't have to do this grind anymore.

0:42.8

I'm going to cable, where I can do good work and I don't have to do 22 episodes.

0:48.1

I went backwards.

0:51.0

Writer and producer Eileen Chacon created the Showtime drama, The Elward, but her time at a cable network didn't prepare her for the roller coaster of running the Fox hit Empire, which is still roaring in the ratings in its second season.

1:05.5

And New Yorker contributor Robert Draper recently profiled Mexican actress Kate Del Castillo. He talks about the superstar

1:12.8

who set up that infamous meeting between Sean Penn and the drug lord El Chapo. But first on the

1:19.0

news banter, superagents Ari Emanuel and Patrick Weitzel say they're going to drink CAA's

1:24.7

milkshake. Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW.

1:31.0

I am joined by my associate in banter, Matt Bellany, of the Hollywood Reporter.

1:35.6

Hello, Matt.

1:36.3

Hello there.

1:37.3

So, you had a cover story in the Hollywood Reporter this past week.

1:41.6

The first interview given by Ari Emanuel and Patrick Weitzel,

1:45.9

the co-heads of William Morris Endeavor IMG, which is the biggest agency in the business right now.

1:52.6

Ari Emanuel, of course, famously the model for Ari Gold in Entourage. Patrick Weitzel, a very capable

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