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Ben Jenkins discusses his work on the Stan Original series The Killings at Parrish Station and his career journey in writing and comedy.

Joining the podcast is Ben Jenkins, the creator and one of the writers of the new six-part Stan Original series The Killings at Parrish Station, a cosmic horror drama that releases on the streamer on June 24. Set across two time periods – 1987 and present day – it begins when a gruesome massacre at a remote research station plunges a detective (played in the past by Mia Wasikowska and in the present by Heather Mitchell) into an inexplicable, decades-long mystery. Throughout the episode Ben talks about his career journey from stand-up comedy to working on The Chaser, and as writer, producer and presenter on The Checkout before his time on The Feed – and how his years in sketch comedy have informed him as a writer. He talks about tackling a drama set across different time periods, how he collaborated with writers Tim Pye, Catherine Smyth-McMullen and Yolanda Ramke to draft episodes, how to maintain the core idea of a story over years of development, and much more. Watch all episodes of The Killings at Parrish Station from June 24

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