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For our TV show, Jane Feltes went back and forth between beloved producer and beleaguered music supervisor, the person charged with finding the perfect songs and getting them cleared for broadcast. Check here each week to read her true stories of soundtrack madness, or if you just want to know what that one song was under that cool part where the weird thing happened. She'll tell you that, too.


EPISODE ONE | Debuted March 22, 2007 Email a Friend


Before we had a television show, and I mean way before, we had a pilot. Actually, at first it wasn't even called that. It was called a "presentation tape," which is a step below a pilot and means we had no money to spend, which was fine because we thought no one would ever see it. Because More...
EPISODE TWO | Debuted March 29, 2007 Email a Friend


Sorry to leave you hanging last week. Where was I? Begging and choosing. Right. Well, after a few meetings with Ira, Chris Wilcha, and the bosses at Left/Right, we decided on the combo platter: we'd get cue libraries from artists we love and albums from bands who could work with our budget, and we'd More...
EPISODE THREE | Debuted April 5, 2007 Email a Friend


I messed up, kinda big time, with this week's episode. And I kinda did it twice.

The first was one of those "check to see if it's plugged in before calling customer service" kind of mistakes. It totally wasn't plugged in. For the top of the show, our editor Jenny Golden was way ahead of the More...
EPISODE FOUR | Debuted April 12, 2007 Email a Friend


This week we have a guest blogger: associate producer Mary Ann Casavant. She dealt with the big music issue in this episode: licensing a music video from Frank's band OXO More...
EPISODE FIVE | Debuted April 19, 2007 Email a Friend


A lot of times I'll hear a song or an album—for example, the incredible new LCD Soundsystem record—and think, "This is great. I like listening to this at the gym and on my walk to work. Now, if only it were instrumental, I could use More...


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