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So There’s That…Brilliant Minds (S2E6) "The Doctor's Graveyard"Watch Brilliant Minds Monday nights at 10/9c on NBC and stream on Peacock the next day!_____Creator: Michael GrassiDirector: Seth MannWriter: Sara Saedi Will EwingCinematographer: Stanley Fernandez JrCast: Zachary Quinto (Dr. Oliver Wolf) Tamberla Perry (Dr. Carol Pierce) Ashleigh LaThrop (Dr. Ericka Kinney) Alex MacNicoll (Dr. Van Markus) Aury Krebs (Dr. Dana Dang) Spence Moore II (Dr. Jacob Nash) Teddy Sears (Dr. Josh Nichols) Donna Murphy (Dr. Muriel Landon) John Clarence Stewart (Dr. Anthony Thorne) Brian Altemus (Dr. Charlie Porter) Bellamy Young (Dr. Amelia Frederick)
2025-10-291h 13So There’s That…Brilliant Minds (S2E2) “The Contestant”Watch Brilliant Minds Monday nights at 10/9c on NBC and stream on Peacock the next day!_____Creator: Michael GrassiDirector: Harry JierjianWriter: Michael Grassi Sara Saedi Cinematographer: Stanley Fernandez JrCast: Zachary Quinto (Dr. Oliver Wolf) Tamberla Perry (Dr. Carol Pierce) Ashleigh LaThrop (Dr. Ericka Kinney) Alex MacNicoll (Dr. Van Markus) Aury Krebs (Dr. Dana Dang) Spence Moore II (Dr. Jacob Nash) Teddy Sears (Dr. Josh Nichols) Donna Murphy (Dr. Muriel Landon) John Clarence Stewart (Dr. Anthony Thorne) Brian Altemus (Dr. Charlie Porter) Bellamy Young (Dr. Amelia Frederick)
2025-09-3034 minSo There’s That…Brilliant Minds (S2E1) “The Phantom Hook”Watch Brilliant Minds Monday nights at 10/9c on NBC and stream on Peacock the next day!_____Creator: Michael GrassiDirector: Harry JierjianWriter: Michael Grassi Sara Saedi Cinematographer: Stanley Fernandez JrCast: Zachary Quinto (Dr. Oliver Wolf) Tamberla Perry (Dr. Carol Pierce) Ashleigh LaThrop (Dr. Ericka Kinney) Alex MacNicoll (Dr. Van Markus) Aury Krebs (Dr. Dana Dang) Spence Moore II (Dr. Jacob Nash) Teddy Sears (Dr. Josh Nichols) Donna Murphy (Dr...
2025-09-2341 min
And Just Like MattSara Saedi & Erin WhiteheadAs I unboxed And Just Like That episode 109, I couldn’t help but wonder: Will I ever stop cravin’ me some Che?
Got a burning question about a relationship or friendship problem (or really anything Sex and the City adjacent)? Just record a voice memo on your phone and email it to AndJustLikeMatt@gmail.com and Matt will answer your question on the show with his very fancy guests.
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2023-10-2650 min
CluedunnitSara Saedi InterviewIn this sidebar episode of Cluedunnit we sit down with writer Sara Saedi. She was in the writers room for iZombie, is currently working on Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, and has a bunch of other interesting credits and stories she shares with us, including the weirdest thing she ever had to look up for a mystery and how the pandemic inspired her latest novel. Enjoy!
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2023-03-0822 minCluedunnitiZombie - Insane in the Germ BrainBIG NEWS! We’ve always wanted to learn more about the creators behind the shows we watch — and this week we start asking them! We interviewed iZombie writer Sara Saedi about how she started writing and how the team approached writing cases and love stories in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. We have a little teaser for that interview in this episode ahead of the full interview next week.
Of course there’s still our patented guesses and randomness, including: Who would win in a show show-down between iZombie and Lucifer? Is it a Head of Hair, or...
2023-03-0157 min
Books Are My People93 - Books Are My People with soThis founder, Annie Long SullivanSign up for my new Books Are My People Newletter here! This week, I speak with Annie Long Sullivan, founder of soThis, a bookclub with benefits. She speaks with me about some of her favorite recent reads and why she started a virtual bookclub community. Books Recommended:Click any title to be taken to my affiliate Bookshop.org shop.All Signs Point to Paris by Natasha SizloThe Things We Do To Our Friends by Heather DarwentI Miss you I Hate this by Sara SaediThe...
2023-01-0925 min
Word of the DayKismetYou’re listening to Lingo Phoenix’s word of the day for June 23.
Women in Engineering Day
Today’s word is kismet, spelled k-i-s-m-e-t.
History and Etymology for kismet
Turkish, from Arabic qisma portion, lot
kismet /ˈkɪz.met/ noun [uncountable]
a force that some people think controls what happens in the future, and is outside human control
It must have been kismet. A few months after accepting the commission, she learned she would be having a baby.
He always said that it was kism...
2022-06-2202 min
Lab Talk43. Rapid Fire Recs- Eleanor & Park, Americanized, LegendWe're back with the lowdown on all the reads you need in your life right now! Shoutout to Bianca, Vanessa, and Kade for some sci-fi, romance, and non-fiction recs.FEATURINGIntro (00:00)Vanessa (00:40)- Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell Bianca (01:05)- Americanized: Rebel Without A Greencard by Sara SaediKade (01:53)- Legend by Marie Lu--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/townviewlibrary/message
2021-12-0202 min
The Immigrant's PathHumanizing the Abstract: An Undocumented Immigrant's Life as Told by a Master StorytellerAn interview with Sara Saedi, writer of iZombie and the upcoming HBOMax iteration of the Green Lantern, and author of several books including "Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card", about her personal story of being an undocumented immigrant from Iran.
2021-10-1949 min
How Do You Do? PodcastSara Saedi, how do you write YA books and TV scripts?Sara Saedi is an author of YA novels (Never Ever, The Lost Kids) and a memoir (Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card), as well as a TV writer (credits include CW's Katy Keene and iZombie, ABC's Grand Hotel). She sits down with Ben to discuss how she figured out the structure for her memoir (10:54); how her background as a creative executive has affected her process as a writer (20:45); and how she writes for T.V. (33:57).
Current curiosities:
Ben: The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race by Neda Maghbouleh
Sar...
2020-10-1142 min
ASE AudioAmericanized - Chapter 3Chapter 3 of Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card by Sara Saedi.
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2020-09-3018 minASE AudioAmericanized - Chapter 2Chapter 2 of Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card by Sara Saedi.
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2020-09-3025 minASE AudioAmericanized - Chapter 1Chapter 1 of Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card by Sara Saedi.
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2020-09-3015 minASE AudioAmericanized: IntroductionIntroduction to Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card by Sara Saedi.
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2020-09-3006 min
The Writers PanelAshley Lyle & Bart Nickerson, Lauren Lefranc, Sara SaediLISTEN TO THE WRITERS PANEL AD-FREE ON FOREVER DOG PLUS:https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plusCONNECT W/ BEN BLACKER & THE WRITER'S PANEL ON SOCIAL MEDIA https://twitter.com/BENBLACKERhttps://www.facebook.com/TVWritersPanelTHE WRITER'S PANEL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/the-writers-panel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2019-11-191h 02
Skylight Books Podcast SeriesSara Saedi, "AMERICANIZED"In Americanized, bright-eyed, straight-A student Sara Saedi uncovered a terrible secret at age thirteen: she was breaking the law simply by living in the United States. Only two years old when her parents fled Iran, she didn’t learn of her undocumented status until her older sister wanted to apply for an after-school job, but couldn’t because she didn’t have a Social Security number.
Fear of deportation kept Sara up at night, but it didn’t keep her from being a teenager. She desperately wanted a green card, along with clear skin, her own car, and a boyf...
2018-07-0244 min
Hey YA#21: Teens and Tiny HousesEric and Kelly talk about their reading habits while traveling, what 2018 YA books you have missed so far this year and need to pick up ASAP, and offer up books that are itching for a great companion. Bonus: get ready to Book Club with Hey YA! Hey YA is sponsored by Legendary by Stephanie Garber and Blood Will Out by Jo Treggiari.Hey YA is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, and right here on Book Riot. Show Notes:Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts) by LC Rosen
2018-06-2754 min
Past ForwardSara SaediA live recording of our educational podcast The How, The Why with Sara Saedi. Sara was born in Tehran, Iran smack-dab in the middle of a war and an Islamic Revolution. She received a B.A. in Film and Mass Communications from the University of California, Berkeley and began her career as a creative executive for ABC Daytime. Since then she’s penned three TV movies for ABC Family and a pilot for the Disney Channel, won a Daytime Emmy for What If…, a web series she wrote for ABC, and worked as a staff writer on the FOX sitcom...
2018-06-1143 minThe iZombie Podcast with Robin and StephS4E13 – And He Shall Be A Good Man
The season finale is here and we may still be wiping away our tears. Yes, there are tears over tough decisions and the death of a “Good Man”, but there are also happy tears as our hearts overflow with happiness toward the end of the episode, even if some of it is bittersweet. “Isn’t that just like her?” *sniff!*
We also go through all the feedback you’ve sent us! And there’s a bunch!
Thank you so much for listening to our podcast this season! There will be a Season 4 music podcast coming...
2018-06-0100 min
The iZombie Podcast with Robin & StephAnd He Shall Be A Good ManThe season finale is here and we may still be wiping away our tears. Yes, there are tears over tough decisions and the death of a "Good Man", but there are also happy tears as our hearts overflow with happiness toward the end of the episode, even if some of it is bittersweet. "Isn’t that just like her?" sniff!
We also go through all the feedback you've sent us! And there's a bunch!
Thank you so much for listening to our podcast this season! There will be a Season 4 music podcast coming soon, and ma...
2018-06-0100 minThe iZombie Podcast with Robin and StephS4E07 – Don’t Hate the Player, Hate The Brain w/special guest Sara Saedi!
Steph is stuck at work this week, so who better to fill in for her than the writer of “Don’t Hate the Player, Don’t Hate the Brain” Sara Saedi! We chat about the womanizing brain the Liv rolls on, as well as some great Clive moments and what Major might be up to.
Check out Sara’s fun memoir about life as an undocumented teen! Make sure to read “Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card“! Order it here!
And please, if you are on Twitter, make sure to let @TheCW know that they shou...
2018-04-2000 min
The iZombie Podcast with Robin & StephS4E07 – Don’t Hate the Player, Hate The Brain w/special guest Sara Saedi!Steph is stuck at work this week, so who better to fill in for her than the writer of “Don’t Hate the Player, Don’t Hate the Brain” Sara Saedi! We chat about the womanizing brain the Liv rolls on, as well as some great Clive moments and what Major might be up to. Check out […]
2018-04-2000 minThe iZombie Podcast with Robin & StephDon’t Hate the Player, Hate The Brain w/special guest Sara Saedi!Steph is stuck at work this week, so who better to fill in for her than the writer of "Don't Hate the Player, Don't Hate the Brain" Sara Saedi! We chat about the womanizing brain the Liv rolls on, as well as some great Clive moments and what Major might be up to.
Check out Sara's fun memoir about life as an undocumented teen! Make sure to read "Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card"! Order it here!
And please, if you are on Twitter, make sure to let @TheCW know that they should #RenewiZOMBiE! The...
2018-04-2000 min
First Draft with Sarah EnniSara SaediSara Saedi, author of NEVER EVER and its sequel, THE LOST KIDS (out today!), as well as YA memoir AMERICANIZED: REBEL WITHOUT A GREEN CARD, talks about her earliest boy-meets-girl story, how being the child of immigrants made her write her first screenplay, soap operas as writing boot camp,the blessing of living in the time of email, and putting a narrative onto your own life. Sara Saedi Show Notes Cocktail (movie) Rain Man (movie) The Babysitter's Club by Ann M. Martin Brooke Bowman She's A...
2018-04-101h 08
Absorb Your Ears To A Captivating Full Audiobook.Americanized by Sara SaediPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/67323to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Americanized
Author: Sara Saedi
Narrator: Lameece Issaq
Format: mp3
Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
Release date: 02-06-18
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 92 ratings
Genres: History & Culture
Publisher's Summary:
2018-02-065h 48Tune In To The Heart-Pounding Full Audiobook Now, Book-Lovers!Americanized by Sara SaediPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/66340to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Americanized
Author: Sara Saedi
Narrator: Lameece Issaq
Format: mp3
Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
Release date: 02-06-18
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 92 ratings
Genres: Education & Learning
Publisher's Summary:
2018-02-065h 48The iZombie Podcast with Robin and StephBonus Episode – Sara Saedi!
Robin chats with SARA SAEDI, writer of this week’s episode “Spanking the Zombie”!
We talk about the writing and filming of the last couple of crazy emotional scenes, the blue juice, the various recurring characters, how far they pushed the dominatrix brain, the deleted scenes, and even some teases of what’s ahead!
Make sure to visit Sara’s website here and pick up a copy of her book “Never Ever” here!
Thanks so much for dropping by the podcast, Sara!
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2017-05-0800 minThe iZombie Podcast with Robin & StephBonus Episode – Sara Saedi!Robin chats with SARA SAEDI, writer of this week’s episode “Spanking the Zombie”! We talk about the writing and filming of the last couple of crazy emotional scenes, the blue juice, the various recurring characters, how far they pushed the dominatrix brain, the deleted scenes, and even some teases of what’s ahead! Make sure to visit […]
2017-05-0800 minThe iZombie Podcast with Robin & StephSara Saedi!Robin chats with SARA SAEDI, writer of this week's episode "Spanking the Zombie"!
We talk about the writing and filming of the last couple of crazy emotional scenes, the blue juice, the various recurring characters, how far they pushed the dominatrix brain, the deleted scenes, and even some teases of what's ahead!
Make sure to visit Sara's website here and pick up a copy of her book "Never Ever" here!
Thanks so much for dropping by the podcast, Sara!
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2017-05-0800 min
On The Page450. 1-Hour & Y.A.What do a "Grey’s Anatomy” and “I-Zombie” writer have in common? They both moonlight as Y.A. writers! Jen Klein and Sara Saedi talk about structure and storytelling for both mediums.
2016-04-2252 minOn The Page450. 1-Hour & Y.A.What do a "Grey’s Anatomy” and “I-Zombie” writer have in common? They both moonlight as Y.A. writers! Jen Klein and Sara Saedi talk about structure and storytelling for both mediums.
2016-04-2252 min