podcast

🎧 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 •

🎧 James Bond's Corporate Suit

Rob Long on why 007 needed his earlier impossible owners

Feb 26 •

🎧 The Garbageman's Vanity Card

Rob Long on standing out amid Hollywood's junk and clutter

Feb 6 •

🎧 ‘You Guys Are All the Same’

Rob Long on not letting success — or faking it — mess with your head

Jan 29 •

🎧 Craft Services Warning Signs

Rob Long on what disappearing Nespresso pods tell you about TV today

Jan 23 •

🎧 Wanted: A Hollywood Happy Ending

Rob Long praises the gift of counter-programming in hard times

Jan 15 •

🎧 Gelson's, Ralph's and the Palisades

Rob Long on what the grocery stores, lost in the fire, told us about Hollywood

Jan 9 •

🎧 Sharing Our Showbiz Luck

Rob Long on the good fortune to complain — and give to others

Dec 18, 2024 •

🎧 Luigi Mangione, Murder & Movies

Rob Long on the know-it-alls drawn to hot topics — and Hollywood

Dec 12, 2024 •

Transcript: Tales from the '90s: 'Last Action Hero' Screenwriters Tell All

Richard Rushfield speaks with Adam Leff and Zak Penn about how their spec script dream curdled into a crushing nightmare of Hollywood excess

Dec 10, 2024

🎧 Tales From the '90s: 'Last Action Hero' Screenwriters Tell All

Richard Rushfield speaks with Adam Leff and Zak Penn about how their spec script dream curdled into a crushing nightmare of Hollywood excess

Dec 9, 2024 •

Richard Rushfield

Transcript: HBO & the Harry Potter Gamble

Casey Bloys talks a big game as questions abound for the prestige network

Dec 6, 2024

Transcript: AI Stole My Scripts: Rage as Big Tech Takes Without Asking

‘Good Wife’ creator Robert King on the outrage after writers find their words used to train models

Nov 28, 2024

🎧 Hollywood is Just Like Trump

Rob Long on our culture of score-settlers, braggarts and braying egomaniacs

Nov 25, 2024 •

Transcript: MSNBC Bets on its 'Ratings Viagra'

Inside the liberal net's survival plan for a Trumpian, post-spinoff world. Plus: Our exclusive on the fight for the future of the Golden Globes

Nov 22, 2024

Transcript: The New Disney Magic

The Mouse House has a winning formula

Nov 15, 2024

🎧 Should You Write TV With Friends or Strangers?

Rob Long on the right alchemy for a room

Nov 13, 2024 •

Transcript: Trump 2.0: Why Ari Wins, Studios Lose

Mergers galore? Is the news business cooked? Does anyone want what Hollywood's selling?

Nov 8, 2024

🎧 What to Say About What Just Happened

Rob Long on how to use the word ‘huh’ in this political moment

Nov 6, 2024 •

Transcript: Free. Popular. Unprofitable

People love Tubi and Roku. But where's the money?

Nov 1, 2024

🎧 Let Them See You Sweat

Rob Long reveals how a young person can still have a career in Hollywood

Oct 30, 2024 •

Transcript: Hollywood’s WFH Wars Worsen

Workers revolt over RTO mandates at Amazon and Lionsgate as industry vets warn about the eventual costs of a career on Zoom

Oct 25, 2024

🎧 'I'm Working on a Cancer Comedy'

Rob Long on the writer's curse of turning every conversation into a pitch

Oct 24, 2024 •

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