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TV in 3: Where’s Jeff Shell?; The New Showrunner Arms Race
Plus: ‘Wisecrack’ pod scoop out of Universal
Mar 6 • Lesley Goldberg
☀️ ANNAPURNA Comes Back To Life; AMAZON 🫶 Gyllenhaal
NETFLIX's big spending week / Ellison 🤐 on job cuts / RAINE adds gaming group
Mar 6 • Sean McNulty
The Oscars’ Arrogance Is the Point
A brutally honest conversation with my colleagues about the awards industry and its future
Mar 5 • Richard Rushfield, Katey Rich, and Christopher Rosen
Taking Stock of the ‘Sinners’ Vibe Shift
The surge of enthusiasm for Ryan Coogler’s blockbuster can make a difference — just ask ‘Parasite’ and ‘Everything Everywhere’
Mar 5 • Katey Rich
Int’l Brief: The Banijay Behemoth, Europe Tests Paramount-WBD, ‘SNL’ vs. London
Yes, mega-mergers are a very messy business everywhere
Mar 5 • Manori Ravindran
Int’l Brief: The Banijay Behemoth, Europe Tests Paramount-WBD, ‘SNL’ vs. London
Yes, mega-mergers are a very messy business everywhere
Mar 5 • Manori Ravindran
🎧 The Paramount-Warners Plan They Won’t Say Out Loud
Cut billions, milk cable, merge the streamers and hope the math works
Mar 5
☀️NETFLIX Buys Affleck AI Company; TKO’s ’26 Ambitions
Another big CBS News departure / WB ‘Ocean’s’-Director Split / Jolie pic to VERTICAL
Mar 5 • Sean McNulty
10 Burning Qs: Paramount–Warner Bros. — What Survives, and Who
‘It’s going to be worse than you think,’ says one insider
Mar 4 • Lesley Goldberg
10 Burning Qs: Paramount–Warner Bros. — What Survives, and Who
‘It’s going to be worse than you think,’ says one insider
Mar 4 • Lesley Goldberg
The Lost Movie Palaces of L.A.
Hollywood once built cathedrals to film
Mar 4 • Matthew Frank
☀️ NETFLIX 🎥 Viewership Slump Continues
SONY gets Bullock pic / FIFTH SEASON spins off unscripted / Jeff Zucker's new production powerhouse
Mar 4 • Sean McNulty
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