John Lutz is very frank about the fact that the short-form series he co-created, “Mapleworth Murders,” came about because of writer’s block. “I was trying to come up with an idea for myself and I just couldn’t come up with anything. Then my wife, who’s also a writer and an actress said, well, why don’t you write something for Paula Pell,” he tells us in our recent webchat (watch the video above). This led to him going off, brainstorming several ideas and then landing on a spoof of the iconic mystery series, “Murder, She Wrote.” “It just clicked and then it was like, you could immediately see Paula in an outfit, walking around Cabot Cove, solving all these crimes and then I asked Paula and fortunately she said yes.”
After netting seven Emmy nominations as a writer for “Saturday Night Live” and “Late Night with Seth Meyers,...
After netting seven Emmy nominations as a writer for “Saturday Night Live” and “Late Night with Seth Meyers,...
- 8/24/2021
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
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