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Season 5

Season 5

2019
•14 Episodes

Episodes

Comedy Actresses
1

1. Comedy Actresses

Jun 23, 2019
60 min

Regina Hall, Natasha Lyonne, Maya Rudolph, Jane Fonda, Constance Wu, Tiffany Haddish and Phoebe Waller-Bridge discuss acting in a comedy role.

Comedy Actors
2

2. Comedy Actors

Jun 30, 2019
60 min

Sacha Baron Cohen, Jim Carrey, Ted Danson, Don Cheadle, Henry Winkler and Timothy Simons discuss the craft of acting.

Drama Actresses
3

3. Drama Actresses

Jul 7, 2019
60 min

Michelle Williams, Emilia Clarke, Danai Gurira, Niecy Nash, Patricia Arquette and Christine Baranski discuss the craft of acting.

Drama Actors
4

4. Drama Actors

Jul 14, 2019
60 min

Stephan James, Hugh Grant, Diego Luna, Billy Porter, Richard Madden and Sam Rockwell discuss the craft of acting.

Comedy Showrunners
5

5. Comedy Showrunners

Jul 21, 2019
60 min

Jerrod Carmichael, Tanya Saracho, Alan Yang, Bill Hader, David Mandel and Ali Rushfield discuss creating a comedy for television.

Drama Showrunners
6

6. Drama Showrunners

Jul 28, 2019
60 min

Sam Esmail, Marti Noxon, John Singleton, Steve Canals, Sera Gamble and Nic Pizzolatto discuss the challenges in creating a drama series today.

TV Directors
7

7. TV Directors

Aug 4, 2019
60 min

Ava DuVernay, Adam McKay, Ben Stiller, David Nutter, Patty Jenkins and Jean-Marc Vallee discuss their work as TV directors.

Directors
8

8. Directors

Jan 5, 2020
60 min

Greta Gerwig (Little Women), Todd Philipps (Joker), Martin Scorsese (The Irishman), Lulu Wang (The Farewell), Fernando Meirelles (The Two Popes) and Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story) discuss their films.

Actresses
9

9. Actresses

Jan 12, 2020
60 min

Rebecca Ford, Renée Zellweger, Scarlett Johansson, Laura Dern, Lupita Nyong’o, Jennifer Lopez discuss the craft of acting.

Actors
10

10. Actors

Jan 19, 2020
60 min

Stephen Galloway, Adam Driver, Adam Sandler, Robert De Niro, Tom Hanks, Jamie Foxx, Shia LaBeouf discuss the craft of acting.

Producers
11

11. Producers

Jan 26, 2020
60 min

Rebecca Ford, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Charlize Theron, David Heyman, Dan Lin, Peter Chernin, Debra Martin Chase discuss producing films.

Writers
12

12. Writers

Feb 2, 2020
60 min

Stephen Galloway, Taika Waititi, Anthony McCarten, Lorene Scafaria, Kasi Lemmons, Destin Daniel Cretton discuss writing in films.

Documentary
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13. Documentary

Feb 9, 2020
60 min

Rebecca Keegan, Julia Reichert, Asif Kapadia, Lauren Greenfield, Nanfu Wang, Todd Douglas Miller discuss creating a documentary.

Executives
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14. Executives

Feb 16, 2020
60 min

Matthew Belloni, Tom Rothman, Scott Stuber, Toby Emmerich, Donna Langley, Jennifer Salke, Jim Gianopulos, Alan Horn discuss their roles as studio executives.