4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Filmmakers Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia tell us about the secretive, years-long process of making Web Junkie, a documentary about an internet addiction treatment facility for teens in China. Then, the executive producers of the Hulu hit East Los High share how their show is filling a void in the teen media market.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
0:06.4 | We have to go in with cars and tinted windows, and then in the winter we would cover, |
0:11.5 | has the scarves, and in the summer with big hats, just to kind of try to keep low-key. |
0:18.3 | Israeli filmmakers Shoshlam and Hila Medalia's documentary Web Junkie follows Chinese |
0:24.6 | teenagers undergoing treatment for internet addiction at a controversial facility outside Beijing. |
0:30.8 | The filmmakers knew they'd have to make their movie without permission from the Chinese government. |
0:36.0 | Then the executive producers of Hulu's original series, East Los High, tell us how the drama |
0:41.4 | about Latino high schoolers was created with the hope of lowering teen pregnancy rates. |
0:47.0 | But first on the news banter, Emmy nominations are out and Donald Trump wasn't nominated. |
0:52.4 | Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW. |
0:59.8 | I am joined by my banter buddy, Michael Schneider of TV Guide magazine. |
1:04.0 | Hello, Mike. |
1:04.5 | Hi, Kim. |
1:05.3 | So, Emmy nominations out a couple days ago. |
1:09.1 | And, you know, the usual so-called snubs, which are not necessarily, you know, I should just say, it doesn't necessarily mean that one show is actually better than the others. This is all based on opinion. And in some cases, you know, maybe some lazy opinion. |
1:22.6 | There's not a lot of rhyme or reason often to these. Some shows are perennials until one year where the Academy |
1:27.8 | suddenly decides, you know what? We're kind of done with you now. We're done with you, good wife. We're |
1:31.1 | done with you, Big Bang Theory. Yeah. And this year, as a matter of fact, they were kind of done with the |
1:35.2 | Big Bang Theory. And both of them, yeah. Yeah, but among the snubs, I guess, the one that people are talking about in the world of critics the most is the Americans, which critics, they were weeping all over Twitter the day that this was announced. |
1:54.6 | Literally weeping all over Twitter. |
1:56.2 | Well, this is a show that every year we wonder, why isn't this show nominated? |
1:59.7 | It truly is one of the best on |
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