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ICYMI: 2-Day Sale, an Award, and the 6-Month Scenario
Catch up on our recent best
 • 
Richard Rushfield
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Janice Min
Summer's High Stakes Movie Showdown
Listen now (36 min) | The box office drought is over. But there are only so many slots for winners
☀️LIONSGATE Q1 shows the 💰 power of having a Studio-caliber Library
NEW LINE sets Jack Quaid to lead horror pic / MAX JJ Abrams series shuts down / Top AMC Scripted execs jump to NETFLIX
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Sean McNulty
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The Lost Photos: When Hollywood Was Hollywood
 • Jennifer Laski
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H'wood FTX Frenzy as Michael Lewis Reveals He Spent 6 Months with Founder
 • Richard Rushfield and Peter Kiefer
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Apple Votes No on Haberman Trump Project
 • Andy Lewis
Royals, Obamas and the End of the $100M Vanity Deal
 • Nicole LaPorte
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'Gone With the Wind': The Explosive Lost Scenes
 • David Vincent Kimel
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☀️'Vicious Cycle': Studios Repeating Cable Mi$takes in Streaming - a #MediaNerd special
FREE Edition: A look at the "new" tactics driving the next Era of Streaming, searching for renewed $$ growth
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Sean McNulty
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'Yellowstone' and Hollywood's Quiet Pivot to Showing Gun Safety Onscreen
How showrunners, producers and actors are shifting firearms' portrayal: 'We can show them more responsibly'
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Peter Kiefer
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Rushfield: The 6-Month Shutdown Scenario
What's really going on as the two sides stare each other down
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Richard Rushfield
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ICYMI: Love, War & Our 'Uncensored Lowdown'
Catch up on our recent best
 • 
Richard Rushfield
 and 
Janice Min
Finding Love on the Picket Lines
What's an unemployed TV comedy scribe to do but to try to date fellow writers?
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Kit Sargent
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How Much Free Work Do Writers Do to Get Paid Work?
Listen now (38 min) | Colby Day on the uncomfortable realities of being a Hollywood scribe today
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Sonny Bunch
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Hollywood's Disappearing ATM Machine
Listen now (36 min) | Cable TV was the golden goose that bankrolled streaming. What went wrong so fast and its role in the writers' revolt
☀️How Hollywood 'Killed its Own Golden Goose': a #MediaNerd Special
Free edition! DIS+ content purge continues / Iger pulls next major FL card / COMEDY CENTRAL cancels more shows
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Sean McNulty
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Disney and Netflix Content Cuts Should Worry the WGA
Is the future dark and full of terrors - or flush with cash? How this ends depends on whose vision of entertainment wins
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