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TIL more than 2000 elderly Hollywood writers, unwilling to write for explicit modern sensibilities, are now writing for Chinese television instead. They’re the Emmy-winning minds behind classic TV like Murder, She Wrote, Miami Vice & The Jeffersons.

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