The Battle for Paramount Pictures | Reinventing an Empire | 5
Can the former crown jewel of Hollywood keep up in the age of the streaming giants? To understand Paramount’s future, you’ve got to understand its past. So today, we’re throwing it back with Doug Herz...
31 Aug 202238min
The Battle for Paramount Pictures | Down to the Wire | 4
It’s Christmas 1993. The bidding war for Paramount is underway and QVC is far out in front.But Viacom owner Sumner Redstone’s not giving in. He’s trying to engineer a merger with Blockbuster that will...
24 Aug 202236min
The Battle for Paramount Pictures | Under Siege | 3
It’s the fall of 1993 and Viacom owner Sumner Redstone thinks he’s got Paramount all sown up.But QVC chief Barry Diller is about to launch a counter-strike and ignite an all-out war for control of the...
17 Aug 202237min
The Battle for Paramount Pictures | Hidden Agendas | 2
It’s summer 1993 and QVC boss Barry Diller is ready to pull the trigger on his hostile takeover to buy Paramount.But he’s about to find he's got an enemy in his ranks who’s playing both sides.And whil...
10 Aug 202235min
The Battle for Paramount Pictures | Killer on the Loose | 1
It’s early 1993 and television’s about to make a quantum leap into a multi-channel world where viewers can access movies from the comfort of their own sofa.But with Hollywood’s movie studios set to cl...
3 Aug 202235min
Best of Business Wars Daily | That's Showbiz | 6
Streaming services are having to get creative to keep our attention amid a sea of competition — from big-screen movies to video games to each other. On this episode, we're joined by Matt Patches, Depu...
28 Jul 202240min
Gucci vs Louis Vuitton | Fashion Forward | 5
Gucci and Louis Vuitton are still the crème de la crème in high fashion. But between shifting consumer values, TikTok and Gen Z, these brands have a lot of work to do to keep up — if they don’t want t...
27 Jul 202237min
Gucci vs Louis Vuitton | The Dom-Tom Bomb | 4
Bernard Arnault makes his move to buy Gucci, but Domenico De Sole fights back with everything he’s got, making a surprisingly worthy adversary for the so-called Wolf in Cashmere. But in an effort to s...
20 Jul 202241min
