Articles Archive for November 2009
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This interview was originally conducted on March 25, 2007.
Now a co-executive producer on House and an Emmy award winner for directing the episode “House’s Head”, three years ago Greg Yaitanes was an executive producer on the short-lived FOX series Drive. Here he discusses his role in the show.
Pasha: There are three executive producers on Drive, two of whom are writers. As the non-writer one, what do your duties consist of as an executive producer?
Greg Yaitanes: My role as a Non-Writing EP? Teacher.
Drive’s late pick up meant that …
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This interview was conducted on July 30, 2007.
Tim Minear worked on Angel for four out of its five seasons, penning such seminal episodes as “Are You Now or Have You Ever Been”, “Reprise” and “Lullaby”. Here he reflects on his time on the show.
Pasha: In the past you’ve mentioned that you initially refused the job to write for Angel several times. What was the reason for this and what made you eventually change your mind?
Tim Minear: When Angel came along, I’d started to make a bit of a name …
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This interview was originally conducted on March 14th, 2009.
After the Dollhouse episode “True Believer” aired, the writer and consulting producer Tim Minear was kind enough to chat with me a bit about this episode, his contributions to the show and what he’s got coming up in development. Enjoy.
Pasha: “True Believer” was conceived as one of the “seven pilots”, as Joss has called them. With this in mind, what was the process of breaking the episode like?
Tim Minear: Well, Joss wanted to do a cult episode. The only real edict …
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This interview was originally conducted on February 2nd, 2009.
Dichen Lachman first became well known for starring in the Australian soap opera as Katya Kinski. After spending a few years on Neighbours she left and moved to LA, where she now stars on Dollhouse as Sierra, an active in the Dollhouse who can be imprinted with any personality or skills. Dichen was recently kind enough to answer a few questions with us.
Pasha: Having worked on the Australian soap Neighbours, what has the transition to Los Angeles and working on …
