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Creating 'The Bridge,' FX's Bilingual Crime Drama
Creating FX's "The Bridge," the bilingual border-town crime drama.
By Kim Masters • • 30m ListenThe new FX series The Bridge is a American adaptation of a Danish-Swedish crime series that's set on the border between the US and Mexico. Co-show-runners Meredith Stiehm and Elwood Reid talk about how they created this bilingual-bicultural story -- complete with subtitles and a mostly bilingual crew.
Banner image: Demian Bichir and Diane Kruger on the set of The Bridge, courtesy of FX
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Meredith Stiehm is an Emmy Award-winning writer-producer from Homeland and the creator of the CBS series Cold Case. Elwood Reid is a novelist and television writer-producer whose credits include Cold Case and the Hawaii Five-O reboot. Together they adapted the Scandinavian series Bron/Broen.
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