Media Monday: The Times' Russini Sub-Plot & Ellison's Antagonists

C.E.O. Eric Shanks joins John to gush about the World Cup and Fox’s decade-long investment in soccer. He discusses his biggest surprises, Fox’s always-on approach to coverage, Zlatan Ibrahimović’s unl...

4 Juli 47min

Matt Belloni joins Peter with the scoop on where Luca Guadagnino’s big OpenAI movie is landing after Amazon dropped it. Matt also digs into the surprisingly strong box office numbers in 2026, and why ...

3 Juli 17min

Julia Ioffe joins Peter with fresh reporting on J.D. Vance’s increasingly pointed criticism of Israel as the U.S. works through its ceasefire deal with Iran, explaining how Vance is playing to a natio...

2 Juli 20min

Julia Alexander joins Peter to explain why A24—cinephiles’ favorite studio—just struck a $75 million partnership with Google’s DeepMind. The studio's fanbase is alarmed, but Julia makes the case for w...

1 Juli 20min

Dylan Byers joins Peter to make sense of Comcast’s bombshell decision to spin off NBCUniversal—including NBC News, Peacock, Bravo, and much more—after 15 years in the content business. Dylan discusses...

30 Juni 15min

Jon Kelly rejoins Peter to discuss the fallout stemming from Matt Belloni’s scoop about Amazon’s decision to dump ‘Artificial.’ Then the duo hypothesize about why The Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro’s media c...

29 Juni 32min

FanDuel President Christian Genetski joins John to talk shop about World Cup engagement, the sports betting scandals putting the industry under a microscope, and FanDuel’s foray into prediction market...

27 Juni 46min

Bill Cohan joins Peter to explain why Bitcoin and most other cryptocurrencies are plummeting, and whether big investors in the crypto space are risking too much by holding on. Then he breaks down the ...

26 Juni 19min