NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING – Details, episodes & analysis

What makes a blockbuster, or a box office bomb? The truth is, as famed screenwriter William Goldman put it, “Nobody knows anything.” Join us each week as we put your favorite actors, directors, and writers through the wringer (aka through a series of games) to see if they’ve got what it takes to make it in this wild town.

This episode is all about coming-of-age stories — movies and TV shows about first loves, schoolyard scrapes, and the realization that the world is far bigger than the block you live on.

Guests: Actor, writer and director Natasha Lyonne (“Poker Face,” “Russian Doll”); actor and comedian Sherry Cola (“Joy Ride,” “Nobody Wants This”); director and Oscar-winning screenwriter Cord Jefferson (“American Fiction”).

NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING s hosted by Franklin Leonard, founder and CEO of The Black List, a platform that helps Hollywood discover great scripts. The show is a production of The Black List and LAist Studios, in partnership with The Ankler.

Support for this podcast is also brought to you by Gordon and Dona Crawford, who believe that quality journalism makes L.A. a better place to live.

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New episodes premiere Tuesdays and you can listen to the show on the radio at LAist 89.3 on weekends. The premiere episode is supported by presenting sponsor FX.

Introducing NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING, a new show about how difficult – but not impossible – it is to make something actually good in Hollywood. Join LAist and The Black List each week as we put your favorite actors, directors, and writers through the wringer to see if they’ve got what it takes to make a successful movie or TV show – with, of course, an escalating series of helpful studio executive notes. In the process, we’ll poke fun at the industry we know and love, and see if famed screenwriter William Goldman was right when he said, “Nobody knows anything.”

NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING is hosted by Franklin Leonard, founder and CEO of The Black List, a platform that helps Hollywood discover great scripts. The show is a production of The Black List and LAist Studios, in partnership with The Ankler.

The first episode premieres on Tuesday, December 10 and is supported by presenting sponsor FX. New episodes drop weekly on Tuesdays and can also be heard on LAist 89.3 on weekends.

It's coming! WILD Season 2 premieres on Tuesday, April 18.

This season is all about the wildest things we do for love. It's a nine-part fiction rom-com for your ears. A couple from Southeast L.A. embarks on a road trip adventure across America. Will their relationship survive the trip? Find out on WILD Season 2: I Think I'm Falling In Love.

This season, Erick Galindo is going tell you a fictional love story. It was inspired by his life. It's about a road trip adventure across America. Erick, the woman he loved, and for some reason her mom and her best friend, all in one car. On the road for weeks. He was steeped in love and in one of the most confusing relationships of his life. The kind of love that forces you to confront parts of yourself in a way you never have before. The kind where despite all that you wind up saying to yourself:

I Think I'm Falling In Love.

Coming from LAist Studios, in April 2023.

Episode 10

As the vaccines arrive, writer Erick Galindo's entire family gets COVID. Except his favorite person, a dog named Blanca, who teaches Erick a valuable lesson about moving on and letting go on a very special TV-style episode of WILD.

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Episode 9

Baltimore-born photographer Shan Wallace talks about why we’re not ready for the world to re-open. And how she found new ways to capture the world through her lens.

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Episode 8

Aida Rodriguez began her comedy career while living in a car with her two kids and working a full time job on the side. Now she is one of the funniest standup comics on the planet and she learned how to do that as a way of coping with the feeling of despair, something that’s helped her get through the pandemic. 

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Support for this podcast is made possible by Gordon and Dona Crawford, who believe that quality journalism makes Los Angeles a better place to live.

This program is made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people.

Episode 7

We made a rom-com! Falling in love during a pandemic unexpectedly distorts time to an exponential degree. In a fiction meets non-fiction romantic comedy, Megan Tan explains. 

The following episode is intended for mature audiences. Listener discretion is advised.

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This program is made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people.

Episode 6

Linda Yvette Chávez co-created a hit Netflix show called Gentefied and is writing a major motion picture, but none of that helped with her imposter syndrome. But when she had to run a show and direct for the first-time in the middle of the pandemic, she found her voice and is now sharing her best practices for dealing with insecurity in the professional world. 

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This program is made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people.

Episode 5

With the comedy clubs shut down across the country, comedian Jenny Yang reinvents the venue by hosting stand-up in one of her favorite online gaming worlds: Animal Crossing.

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