# Screaming into the Hollywood Abyss

> Behind the glitz and glamor, Hollywood can be brutal. For every success, there are many more rejections and failures.Screaming into the Hollywood Abyss explores that world and each week a new guest will talk about dealing with rejection, failure and adversity in the entertainment business.Writer Noah Evslin and podcaster Dan Rutstein ask the questions.

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## Site

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## Recent episodes

- [Take 156 - Showrunner Erica Messer, Criminal Minds Evolution, Party of Five, Alias](https://www.hollywoodabyss.com/minds/): published 2026-08-06

- [Take 155 - Executive producer, director Minkie Spiro, All Her Fault, 3 Body Problem, Rat Women](https://www.hollywoodabyss.com/allherfault/): published 2026-07-09

- [Take 154 - Showrunner and Creator Craig Gerber, Sofia the First, Elena of Avalor](https://www.hollywoodabyss.com/princess/): published 2026-05-22

- [Take 153 - Showrunners and Writers Kristin Robinson and Ian Deitchman, It’s Not Like That](https://www.hollywoodabyss.com/likethat/): published 2026-05-14

- [Take 152 - Writer, producer, director Thom Harp, Home Delivery, The Donor Party](https://www.hollywoodabyss.com/thom/): published 2026-04-16

- [Take 151 - Showrunner, Writer Courtney Lilly, Black-ish, Everyone Hates Chris](https://www.hollywoodabyss.com/blackish/): published 2026-04-09

- [Take 150 - Writer, Director David Zucker - Airplane, Top Secret, The Naked Gun](https://www.hollywoodabyss.com/zucker/): published 2026-02-19

- [Take 149 - Writer Gary Whitta, Rogue One, See you in Hell](https://www.hollywoodabyss.com/seeyouinhell/): published 2026-01-15

- [Take 148 - Showrunner and Novelist Craig Thomas, How I Met Your Mother and That’s Not How It Happened](https://www.hollywoodabyss.com/thomasnovel/): published 2025-12-11

- [Take 147 - Special Episode. Martyn Robertson and Gordon Mackay. Make it to Munich.](https://www.hollywoodabyss.com/munich/): published 2025-09-05

- [Take 146 - Director, Producer, Writer Nick Verso, Boys in the Trees, Invisible Boys](https://www.hollywoodabyss.com/verso/): published 2025-09-04

- [Take 145 - Story Editor (Head Writer) James Eason-Garcia, Ironman and his Awesome Friends, Star Wars Young Jedi Adventures](https://www.hollywoodabyss.com/ironman/): published 2025-08-07

- [Take 144 - Showrunner, Writer Tony Ayres, The Slap, The Survivors](https://www.hollywoodabyss.com/survivors/): published 2025-06-19

- [Take 143 - Writer Daniel Casey, 10 Cloverfield Lane, F9](https://www.hollywoodabyss.com/f9/): published 2025-05-15

- [Take 142 - Actor, Writer, Director, Author, Producer Eriq La Salle, Coming to America, On Call](https://www.hollywoodabyss.com/eriq/): published 2025-05-08

- [Take 141 - Arika Lisanne Mittman, Writer, Showrunner, Timeless, La Brea, The Irrational](https://www.hollywoodabyss.com/irrational/): published 2025-03-27

- [Take 140 - Showrunner Joe Wilson, The Equalizer](https://www.hollywoodabyss.com/equalizer/): published 2025-03-20

- [Take 139 - Co-Creators Tim Walsh and Elliot Wolf, On Call](https://www.hollywoodabyss.com/oncall/): published 2025-03-13

- [Take 138 - Showrunner, Writer Sally Bradford Mckenna, Will & Grace, Laid](https://www.hollywoodabyss.com/laid/): published 2025-03-06

- [Take 137 - Showrunner JJ Bailey, The Hunting Party](https://www.hollywoodabyss.com/huntingparty/): published 2025-02-27

- [Take 136 - Writer Matthew Aldrich, Coco, Cleaner](https://www.hollywoodabyss.com/coco/): published 2025-02-20

- [Take 135 - Executive and Producer Sue Naegle, Day of the Jackal, Game of Thrones](https://www.hollywoodabyss.com/jackal/): published 2024-12-19

- [Take 134 - Writer and Showrunner Kevin Abbott, Roseanne, Golden Girls, Happy’s Place](https://www.hollywoodabyss.com/happy/): published 2024-12-05

- [Take 133 - Producer Michael Costigan, Brokeback Mountain, Based on a True Story](https://www.hollywoodabyss.com/costigan/): published 2024-11-21

- [Take 132 - Showrunner Frank Cardea, NCIS, Crazy Like a Fox, Shogun](https://www.hollywoodabyss.com/cardea/): published 2024-10-24

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