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    The Business

    ‘Masters of Sex’

    Today we revisit Kim Masters' conversation with Michelle Ashford, the creator and showrunner of the Showtime series Masters of Sex. The show was just picked up for third season. Ashford talks about her decades in the television business.

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    By Kim Masters • Aug 27, 2014 • 1 min read

    Today we revisit Kim Masters' conversation with Michelle Ashford, the creator and showrunner of the Showtime series Masters of Sex. The show was just picked up for third season. Ashford talks about her decades in the television business. She's worked for years writing pilots -- and making a living doing so -- but never got a series on the air until this one. She also addresses how a show about sex is not necessarily sexy and how she thinks Masters and Johnson were "accidental feminists" and, by extension, so is the show. She reflects on the gender disparity in the TV business.

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    Creating Showtime's 'Masters of Sex'
    1. 0:48Hollywood News Banter
    2. 7:48‘Masters of Sex’You’re reading this
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      Kim Masters

      partner/writer at Puck News, host of KCRW's “The Business.”

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      Michael Schneider

      Senior editor at Variety

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      Kaitlin Parker

      Producer, 'The Business' and 'Hollywood Breakdown'

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      Michelle Ashford

      writer and producer

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    The full episode

    2 of 2
    Creating Showtime's 'Masters of Sex'
    1. 0:48Hollywood News Banter
    2. 7:48‘Masters of Sex’You’re reading this
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