‘Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist’ creator Austin Winsberg and choreographer Mandy Moore
The Business
KCRW
4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Austin Winsberg, creator of the NBC series “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist,” and producer-choreographer Mandy Moore check in from Canada, where they had just finished shooting the show’s 100th musical number. After working on season two under new COVID guidelines, Moore and Winsberg say they’ve become experts at reading each other’s eyes while working with masks on.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business. |
| 0:05.5 | When work started on season two of Zoe's extraordinary playlist, the challenge was capturing |
| 0:10.2 | big song and dance numbers under new COVID guidelines. The first episode opened with a rousing |
| 0:15.8 | rendition of Hello Dolly. And I'm pretty sure one or both of us cried as the number was going on because it was just such a, to us at least, it was both validation that we could do it and a celebration of people in a way that we hadn't seen for months and months and months. |
| 0:31.1 | Show creator Austin Winsberg and producer, choreographer Mandy Moore, join us from the set of Zoe's extraordinary playlist in Canada, |
| 0:38.9 | where they had just finished shooting the show's 100th musical number. |
| 0:43.1 | Moore in Winsberg described walking a fine line to capture the tone of a very personal show |
| 0:48.5 | and explain how they decide which songs go where. |
| 0:52.1 | But first on the news banter, Fox News in the basement. |
| 0:55.3 | Stick around. |
| 0:55.9 | It's the business from KCRW. |
| 1:02.8 | I am joined by my buddy in banter. |
| 1:05.2 | Matt Bellany. |
| 1:05.8 | Hello, Matt. |
| 1:06.5 | Hi there. |
| 1:07.2 | So, Matt, I will be transparent and say I am not sorry to see that Fox News has fallen to third |
| 1:12.7 | place. I have been quite public about not being a fan of what I and many others perceive to be |
| 1:19.3 | a fountain of toxic disinformation. They are in an unaccustomed position here, though. They have |
| 1:25.7 | not been in third place among the cable networks, |
| 1:28.5 | the 24-hour news networks, in decades, literally. And they are now in third place. And why that is, |
| 1:36.8 | is a question, you know, part of this could be, as you will recall, Donald Trump, having been a very |
| 1:42.8 | big admirer of Fox News, and they were in this mutual |
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