Marc Smerling appears on this episode of the Irish Tech News podcast

Once in a blue moon you get a TV show that becomes a cultural phenomenon and Marc Smerling has managed this feat twice within the past 5 years. Marc produced Catfish, and recently produced and wrote the HBO documentary series The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst and the writer and producer of this groundbreaking show. Marc Smerling was speaking at MediaCon 2016 and Ronan caught up with him. Marc spoke about the quality of content on a TV has to be good to get people watching it, how storytelling has improved, as tv becomes more digital why we will soon have buttons in on screens in our cars and tv’s that we press to get the latest news and information. Marc also talks about The Jinx and Catfish.

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