podcast

🎧 Dumb Comedies Will Save Hollywood

Rob Long marks a big birthday by pondering showbiz ups and downs

Jul 2 •

🎧 What Keith McNally Can Teach Hollywood

Rob Long on the restaurateur who makes you feel like the star of your own scene

Jun 19 •

🎧 The Missing Middle-Zone Shows

Rob Long on what makes an ideal restaurant — and TV series

May 22 •

🎧 My ER Trip to Grey's Anatomy: Gen Z

What Rob Long's hot stroke doctors taught him about TV

May 14 •

🎧 The Trickery of Tariffs & Incentives

Rob Long on why some popular ideas don’t always make financial sense

May 7 •

🎧 Upfronts, Auspices & Half-Truths

What to learn from how the TV game used to be played

Apr 30 •

🎧 The Leakiest Business

Silicon Valley's hard lessons about how Hollywood operates

Apr 24 •

🎧 Just Buy It. Just Say Yes

Rob Long on the endless pitch, Silicon Valley, Netflix and Fin-Syn

Apr 16 •

🎧 The Bezos Divide

Rob Long wonders why Amazon shopping is so easy yet watching Prime Video is so hard

Apr 9 •

🎧 Let’s Hold an IP Swap Meet

Rob Long's lesson for Hollywood from his garage sale

Mar 26 •

🎧 The Lineman TikTok TV Show

Rob Long calls for new much-needed words in the Hollywood lexicon

Mar 20 •

🎧 A Priest Walks Into a Pitch Meeting . . .

What happens when God meets Hollywood? Rob Long tempts fate

Mar 12 •

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