Salon.com > ann biderman http://www.salon.com Wed, 03 Jul 2013 01:14:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “Ray Donovan” creator Ann Biderman: “I’m not interested in weddings and dresses and dating” http://www.salon.com/2013/06/30/ray_donovan_creator_ann_biderman_im_not_interested_in_weddings_and_dresses_and_dating/ http://www.salon.com/2013/06/30/ray_donovan_creator_ann_biderman_im_not_interested_in_weddings_and_dresses_and_dating/#comments Sun, 30 Jun 2013 20:00:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13339826 "Ray Donovan," which premieres Sunday night on Showtime, is another antihero drama. It stars Liev Schreiber as the titular character, a Boston-born man whose entire family — his wife, kids and two brothers — has been transplanted to Los Angeles, where he works as a fixer, solving problems  — dead bodies in bed, blackmail, stalkers— for the rich and sometimes famous. In the first episode, Donovan's father, Mickey (Jon Voight, with a raging Boston accent), is released from prison, immediately goes and shoots the priest who molested one of his sons, and then heads out to L.A., where his son wants nothing to do with him. "Ray Donovan" is the creation of Ann Biderman, a lively, blunt-talking woman who also created and ran the great, recently ended, TNT cop show "Southland." I spoke with Biderman about "Ray Donovan," "macho" subject matter, and writing whatever the hell she wants.

With “Southland,” you made a cop show, and, obviously, there have been a lot of cop shows before. With “Ray Donovan,” there are lots of elements and tropes — Boston, boxing, gangsterism — that we’ve also seen before. Do you think about how to use these elements and address these genres in original ways? 

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