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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Tina Fey: The Return of The Four Seasons

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Bobi NYC

Science, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.83.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Tina Fey’s reimagining of a movie Alan made over 40 years ago has been a big hit for Netflix. She and Alan have fun talking about how she went about updating the story for a new generation.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Alan Alder, and this is clear and vivid conversations about connecting and communicating.

0:16.0

Well, we started the, our writer's room, I really love this small but very gifted staff that we have

0:22.9

so same writers from season one and everyone's continuing to be really generous with sharing

0:28.3

their own experiences from their own marriages and their own friendships and so we're we're

0:33.0

trying to figure out what we can do in season two. We're in our second week working together.

0:39.7

It was certainly easier when we had the template of your excellent screenplay.

0:44.4

So now we have to kind of continue to honor that tone.

0:48.1

We're trying to figure out, yeah, like, what's enough story that people want to keep watching,

0:52.5

but not so much story that it feels like, oh, well,

0:55.4

now we're in outer space. We're not, this is not feeling like real life anymore. So we're

1:00.7

going to do our best. We're going to do our best. That's Tina Faye. A reimagining of a movie

1:07.2

I made over 40 years ago, the four seasons, has been a big hit for Netflix.

1:12.6

And she and I have fun talking about how she went about updating the story for a new generation.

1:18.0

And now that Netflix is given the go-ahead for a second season, I wonder where the story will go from here.

1:24.3

And so does she.

1:28.3

Teen, I'm so happy for you you four seasons, the series on Netflix, hit number one worldwide. I love that worldwide part.

1:36.3

Thank you, Alan. We obviously could never have done it without you.

1:40.3

Without the movie.

1:42.3

Well, the movie that I wrote 44 years ago now, I think.

1:46.0

Well, it really holds up.

1:47.6

The movie that is now also available on Netflix.

1:50.9

I know.

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