00:00The Hollywood Reporter would be an excellent show, I think.
00:03There's probably a lot of adventures that you have
00:05with a rotating cast of strange people that you interview.
00:09That's a deal. We just made it packed for a new show, right?
00:11I'm the exclusive writer of The Hollywood Reporter TV show.
00:19Hi, I'm Greg Daniels, and I'm having a busy summer.
00:22A small-town New York boy has a lucky time of it in Hollywood.
00:33I don't always agree with the headlines,
00:35so when you read the stories,
00:37they're more interesting than the headlines, usually.
00:41Well, if there's a common thread to what I do,
00:44it's that I'm in the genre of character comedy,
00:47which I love and goes back to Mary Tyler Moore's show
00:52and Jack Benny and Cheers
00:54and all those kind of great shows about personalities.
00:57They're all variations of that,
00:58and I like to build fabulous ensemble casts
01:03because it makes it easier to write comedy
01:07for such interesting people.
01:12Thanos. No, I don't think there's a Thanos.
01:15Thanos. I think my world view is that
01:19even the most irritating characters
01:21have a bit of humanity in them.
01:27Well, I've had anxiety about it,
01:30you know, for like eight years,
01:32ever since people started asking me
01:34about doing a reboot,
01:35but this isn't a reboot.
01:37It's a new documentary from the same crew,
01:41and exploring new characters
01:43was actually very fun.
01:45And working with Michael Komen,
01:48who created the show with me,
01:50was a joy,
01:51and getting to match these jokes
01:54and characters to a new cast
01:55was a joy.
01:57So it's been pretty fun
01:59and not anxiety-producing.
02:01Gosh, well, a lot of the things
02:10in Upload will probably,
02:11they'll be using,
02:12like self-driving cars
02:14and digital printed food
02:17and stuff like that.
02:18I like to think that
02:20there'll still be a newspaper
02:21in 2035
02:22on some kind of screen
02:24that you hold on your hand.
02:25In the office,
02:31the characters were selling stationery
02:33in a digital world of iPads,
02:35and there's something
02:37a little poignant
02:38about plugging away
02:39in a field
02:41that's slowly shrinking.
02:44And certainly,
02:44the newspaper
02:46is one of those situations,
02:48but the people
02:49who are left
02:50caring about journalism
02:52and doing their job
02:54are very optimistic
02:56and dedicated people,
02:58and they're fun
02:58to write about.
03:03Well, as a TV writer,
03:04I have a trunk,
03:05and in the trunk
03:06are a lot of ideas.
03:07I have a full script
03:09of another show
03:10in the trunk
03:10and, you know,
03:11a bunch of fragments,
03:13but in this era of AI,
03:15there's absolutely no way
03:16I'm going to mention them
03:17in advance.
03:22King of the Hill
03:23should never have been
03:24taken off the air
03:25in the first place,
03:25so it's been ripe for comeback
03:27since they stopped making them.
03:29Getting back in touch
03:30with those characters
03:31by co-writing
03:32the first script
03:33was really wonderful for me.
03:36I loved working with the cast,
03:38but I hadn't kind of communed
03:40with Hank and Peggy
03:41and Bobby
03:42in a long time,
03:43and getting back
03:44into their point of view
03:45was really
03:46a terrific experience.
03:52Well, the story
03:55of King Midas
03:55was actually
03:56a real bad story,
03:58a real cautionary tale.
03:59He screwed up everything
04:00by touching them,
04:01so I'm not going to
04:02try and inhabit
04:03that metaphor,
04:04but I've just been
04:05very, very lucky
04:06to work with some
04:06amazing people
04:08and to work on projects
04:10that attract great people.
04:12It's a lot easier
04:12to find talent
04:13if they want to work
04:15on something
04:15that you're doing.
04:17Yeah, never give up.
04:18That's what it is.
04:23I'm so happy
04:24that the fans
04:25are still interested
04:26in these older characters
04:28or the story of Upload
04:30finishing after four seasons
04:32or coming out
04:33to see what's next
04:35in the world of The Office.
04:37So the fans are happy.
04:39I'm happy.
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