Series Business
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TV in 3: Duffers Nab North Road Exec, Mindy Kaling’s ‘NSFW’ Seeks a Lifeline
Plus, USA Network and Fox Entertainment Studios combine indie forces on a new drama series
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Sell, Stream or Die: Ellison’s Brutal Cable Choices as Bonta Closes in
Insiders on which Paramount/WBD brands have the most value and the players emerging to ‘milk them until the end’
Latest Series Business stories
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Taylor Frankie Paul: How Disney Signed Off on a Disaster — and The Fallout Begins
I’ve got the details and dollars on ‘The Bachelorette,’ ‘Mormon Wives’ and Disney’s one-woman wrecking ball
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TV in 3: Dana Walden’s Reorg Winners — and Who Got Layered; ‘Pitt’ Politics
I decipher Disney’s latest ‘consolidation of power’; plus, Carol Mendelsohn on her Fox Bible series, ‘The Faithful’
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Who Slayed the ‘Buffy’ Reboot — and Why
I reveal the doomed pilot’s budget, its ‘failure to launch’ and the internal Hulu drama that sank it
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Paramount vs. California: The War for Hollywood Begins
AG Rob Bonta fires the first major shot at the merger as Hollywood’s Teamsters leader sounds the alarm
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TV in 3: Seth MacFarlane-Peacock Open Marriage; a WB Insider’s Vicious Substack
Plus: ‘Baywatch’ bets on influencers
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Bill Lawrence: How I Turned a Slump Into a TV Hot Streak
The ‘Rooster’ creator on his optimism era — even about Paramount-Warners — plus a scoop on Netflix’s MLB Opening Day lineup
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‘Show Wall St. the Blood’: A Biz Affairs Exec on the Brutal Paramount-Warners Math Ahead
Veteran Ken Basin predicts dealmaking shakeups and, of course, layoffs
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TV in 3: Where’s Jeff Shell?; The New Showrunner Arms Race
Plus: ‘Wisecrack’ pod scoop out of Universal
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Int’l Brief: The Banijay Behemoth, Europe Tests Paramount-WBD, ‘SNL’ vs. London
Yes, mega-mergers are a very messy business everywhere
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10 Burning Qs: Paramount–Warner Bros. — What Survives, and Who
‘It’s going to be worse than you think,’ says one insider
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The Disappearing Ladder: Gen Z Inherits the Collapse
As consolidation reshapes jobs from the top down, Hollywood’s youngest workers are rebuilding from the bottom up
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TV in 3: Warners’ ‘Tone-Deaf’ Town Hall; Falchuk on ‘Famous Last Words’
Fallout and leadership fails roil the studio. Plus: Do actors really need GoFundMe pleas?
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Org Chart From Hell: ‘Too Many Tentacles for One Octopus’
A Paramount-WBD merger would mean 20 chiefs, two streaming platforms, one shrinking C-suite — and an executive bloodletting
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A ‘Top Model’ Reckoning Goes No. 1 on Netflix. Why?
The producer of the smash docuseries tells me how it came together — plus a scoop on what really led to the judges’ firing
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TV in 3: Netflix Adult Animation Spree, WGA Disarray
I look at the streamer’s new straight-to-series buys and strategy
Series Business’ Elaine Low, Lesley Goldberg and Manori Ravindran report on the TV industry’s big names and bigger shifts — tracking the deals and decisions redefining a market.