The Business
Showtime President on 'Homeland;' Argo's Story Detective
Showtime's president talks "Homeland." We meet the producer who found the "Argo" story.
By Kim Masters • • 28m ListenDavid Nevins, Showtime's president, on keeping Homeland surprising and unpredictable. Also, producer David Klawans (Argo, Nacho Libre) wants to be "the true story guy."
Banner image: (L-R) Claire Danes and David Nevins. Photo courtesy of Showtime
In this episode
3 storiesThe Hollywood News Banter
Kim Masters and John Horn, film writer for the Los Angeles Times, banter about some of this week's top Hollywood news stories.
Read the story7 minDavid Nevins
David Nevins has a history of working at NBC and Imagine Television (Arrested Development, Friday Night Lights, 24). So he knows something about Emmy-winning, critically loved shows that don't get huge ratings.
Read the story13 minDavid Klawans
David Klawans is an executive producer on Argo but it may be better to say he's a "story detective." Early on he decided his niche would be finding true stories and turning them into movies. He discovered the story for Argo in late-1998, early-1999, buried in a CIA quarterly journal, " Studies in Intelligence ."
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