Karis Bizzaca

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283 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 21 Jul

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Breaking Screen · Ben Jenkins: creating and co-writing The Killings at Parrish Station · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

I'm your host, Karis Bazaka, and I'm recording this podcast from the lands of the Gadigal people of the Iora Nation, where I'm very grateful to be a visitor and be able to work on these lands.

Always was, always will be.

Today's episode features Ben Jenkins, the creator and one of the writers of the new six-part Stan original series The Killings at Parish Station, a cosmic horror drama that releases on the streamer on June 24th.

Set across two time periods, nineteen eighty-seven and present day, the series 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.

The other writers on the series include Tim Pye, Catherine Smythe McMullen, and Yolanda Ramke.

All episodes were directed by Daniel Netheim and it was executive produced by Helium's Mark Fennessey.

Throughout the episode, Ben talks about his career starting out in comedy, working at the ABC with The Chaser, and then as writer, producer and presenter on The Checkout, before his time as a senior producer and writer on The Feed, and how his years in sketch comedy have informed him as a writer.

He talks through tackling a crime drama set across different time periods, how he collaborated with other writers to draft episodes, how to maintain the core idea of a story over years of development, and much more.

Here's that chat.

I always start the pod the same way where we talk in screenwriting a lot about inciting incidents.

And so I'm wondering what is the inciting incident of your career?

That's Newcastle for anyone outside of

Sorry, yes.

In UI.

But and like so what what can we can I get a sense of like what year we're talking?

Okay.

Yeah.

Saturday night live is hard.

But like

Try working on the feed doing sketches.

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