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Aline Brosh McKenna, Co-Creator of 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend'
Screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna had never planned to go back to working in television. Then she found Rachel Bloom's YouTube videos. She tells us how they teamed up to create the quirky CW musical comedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
By Kim Masters • • 29m ListenAline Brosh McKenna has written hit movies like The Devil Wears Prada and 27 Dresses. She wasn't looking to helm a TV show, but that's what happened after she fell in love with performer Rachel Bloom's satirical, musical videos on YouTube. McKenna tells us how creating Crazy Ex-Girlfriend was her version of "running away to the circus," and how she and Bloom revived the pilot after it had been declared dead.
Photo: Santino Fontana and Aline Brosh McKenna on the set of the Season One finale of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Courtesy of The CW.
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