Tv. We have a cartoonish larger than life president so it becomes easier to make fun of. The monster in the white house. Thats not possible. Beat up on him. We like annihilate. Blowing up scripts. We just started over again. What . Transformaling story lines. It becomes my tut as a latina to set the record straight. Say hello to my little friend. People have a crystal ball. They are calling on the media to check facts. The americans benefit from anything that gets them talking. Have you looked at the news. Things are worse. Not on the real news. I had a lot more to say. Resonating with trumps america. The smash. Look at roseanne look at her ratings. With a shocking plot twist. Cnn special report, the trump show. Tvs new reality. You see the people saying you are going to burn in hell and gay people. God hates blank. Friday morning at sony picture studios in culver city, california. I wish there had been a bystander. Mike and gloria are brainstorming in the writers room. That is an eleg
it s the fictional president-elect on show time s hits by thriller homeland. show runner alex gonza said last season was based solely on trump winning the election. it became undeniable that that s the story we would tell. what does a newly elected president do when faced with a country completely divided? trump flipped a switch. scripted dramas have been reimagined. we are trying to make sense of what s happening. you really do get to react to what you are seeing. i call on the media to do their jobs and check their faxes. homeland, you felt like you could feel the sweat of trying to keep up with and stay current. seemingly impossible for tv dram as these days. citizens can t tell the difference between fact and fiction, the project of civilization turns to dust.
a week and a half into shooting the pilot, trump won. we went back and started over again. in the trump era, last minute script changes are the new reality for scripted tv. we will see what we will see. there is this impulse to be relevant and comment on what s going on. alex gonza is the cocreator of homeland. when a story breaks, do you talk about how to make it part of the show? it s the first thing we discuss every morning, especially now when the news cycle is so crazy. breaking news, defending putin. a stunning shake-up at the white house. is this something to the story? a porn star and a staff departure, just another day in the trump white house. we were all utterly blown away and trying to adapt to trump s america. eileen jacob. is it fair to say hollywood is a hub of the so-called resistance? it s no secret that hollywood