What Studios Really Want
Matt Belloni joins Ben Landy to break down the latest developments and deal points in the writers’ strike: navigating a new era of TV, Hollywood’s shrinking middle class, and Zaslav’s P.R. strategy. T...
16 Touko 202326min
Media Monday: CNN Talk Therapy & Tucker Prophecies
With Peter Hamby off on his honeymoon, Jon Kelly and Dylan Byers fill his shoes to weigh in on CNN’s internal town hall fallout and speculate about whether Tucker Carlson is a Rogan or a Megyn. To l...
15 Touko 202326min
S.B.F.’s Legal Noose
Teddy Schleifer joins Peter to discuss the F.B.I. dragnet enclosing Sam Bankman-Fried as another former FTX executive is pressured to flip. Then Lauren Sherman swings by to talk about the evolution of...
12 Touko 202327min
The Joe Manchin ‘24 Fantasy
Tara Palmeri joins Peter to discuss the third-party anti-Trump, anti-Biden fantasy—and Joe Manchin’s potential role in the mix. For more from Tara - https://puck.news/no-labels-leaks-manchin-24-drea...
11 Touko 202312min
The A.I. Writers’ Strike
Baratunde Thurston joins Peter to discuss how much A.I. will fully impact Hollywood’s epic writers’ strike, and how many other creative industries remain on the front lines of the content wars. To l...
10 Touko 202323min
A Buffett-Shari Mystery
Eriq Gardner and Peter Hamby dig into the next act of the Disney-DeSantis cat fight. And then Ben Landy and Bill Cohan speculate about why Warren Buffet even bought into Shari Redstone’s Paramount Glo...
9 Touko 202325min
Media Monday: More Zazonomics & a Vice Epitaph
Jon Kelly joins Peter to discuss the topics that are keeping the media chattering classes chattering: Zaz’s earnings, the Paramount catastrophe, and the end of Vice as we know it. To learn more abou...
8 Touko 202319min
The G.O.P.’s New Money Men
Teddy Schleifer joins Peter to dig into the Republican party’s new generation of post-Adelson benefactor zillionaires—and what they think about the Meatball. Then Tina Nguyen documents some surprising...
5 Touko 202327min
