{"id":2110,"date":"2015-09-22T02:51:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2015-09-22T02:51:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T02:51:58","slug":"quantico-pre-premiere-3-diversity-in-characters-writers-producers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/2015\/09\/22\/quantico-pre-premiere-3-diversity-in-characters-writers-producers\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantico Pre-Premiere #3: Diversity in Characters, Writers &amp; Producers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This show really touches on many social issues of our thoughts of national security and the way we view others. The executive producing team comes from all sorts of TV show backgrounds, which should help develop the identities of the characters with a knowledgeable acumen for their cultural and social differences. Joshua Safran will be the head writer for the show and he hails from the world of Gossip Girl. This experience should help pen towards a younger audience while dealing with heftier topics. This should also help with the language of the \u201cSouthern Belle\u201d character. Experienced executive producer Mark Gordon will be at the helm. He has been behind such shows as, <em>Grey\u2019s Anatomy, Criminal Minds, <\/em>and<em> Ray Donovan<\/em>. This mix of thought-provoking, successful dramas with characters from all walks of life should help Quantico find its stroke and humanize its characters. The rest of the Quantico writing staff is just as diverse as their characters, Safran says, \u201cWe have a Muslim writer, a Palestinian writer. We are taking that very seriously. We want to go into those stories with as much care and thought as possible. We just hope that it\u2019s exciting and every week there\u2019s a conversation about things that happen, not just when it\u2019s ultimately revealed who it may be\u201d (http:\/\/www.ew.com\/article\/2015\/08\/04\/quantico-abc-terrorist).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This show really touches on many social issues of our thoughts of national security and the way we view others. The executive producing team comes from all sorts of TV show backgrounds, which should help develop the identities of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/2015\/09\/22\/quantico-pre-premiere-3-diversity-in-characters-writers-producers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[563],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}