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The One Where Aline’s Show Debuts

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October 13, 2015 Film Industry, Follow Up, Scriptnotes, Television, Three Page Challenge, Transcribed, Words on the page, Writing Process

Aline Brosh McKenna joins us to talk through the launch of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and what she’s learned since she introduced us to the show nearly a year ago. Brian Lowry of Variety raves that it is “one of the fall’s most promising hours.” We’re not surprised at all.

Then it’s a look at three pages from writer-director Scott Frank’s THE LOOKOUT, examining how a two-character dialogue scene works both on paper and on the screen.

Also this week: Indian screenwriters go on strike, Craig goes to Canters, and a French train hero gets stabbed in the second act.

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Links:

  • Austin Film Festival 2015 panel schedule
  • Train hero Spencer Stone stabbed, and Scriptnotes, 214
  • Canter’s
  • Aline Brosh McKenna on episodes 60, 76, 100, 101, 119, 123, 124 152, 161, 175, 180 and 200
  • The New York Times on The Great American Musical, Side B, in ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’
  • Rachel Bloom and Jack Dolgen (and Aline) on Scriptnotes, 175
  • Bola Ogun, and the full cast and crew of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend on IMDb
  • Bollywood to go on indefinite strike from October 3 from The Times of India
  • Scott Frank on Wikipedia and IMDb
  • The Artful Writer on Scene Harmony
  • Three Pages by Scott Frank, and the scene from The Lookout
  • Use gift cards from other countries to make purchases in foreign iTunes stores
  • Games Magazine
  • Outro by Rajesh Naroth (send us yours!)

You can download the episode here: AAC | mp3.

UPDATE 10-16-15: The transcript of this episode can be found here.

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