BONUS EPISODE: Inside HBO's Writers Room with Showrunner Daniel Knauf

Today's guest is writer and showrunner, Daniel Knauf. Daniel Knauf
had a couple of small credits to his name—a TV movie here, a stint
on Wolf Lake there—when he managed to sell the intricate Great
Depression-era genre show Carnivàle to HBO.

The series, an intricate blend of meticulously researched period
detail and secret-history fantasy, purported to tell the tale of
what happened when the last two “Avatars”—superpowered beings of
light and darkness—met in the United States on the eve of World War
II. The series attracted a cult audience that remains devoted to
this day, but a mass audience wasn’t sure what to make of the
program, and HBO canceled it after two seasons, saying the show’s
story was finished, in spite of Knauf’s plan for a six-season
run.

We go deep inside the writer's room, what it takes to be a
showrunner and many of his misadventures in Hollyweird!

Enjoy my conversation with Daniel Knauf.


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