Episode 264 - Law & Order of the Rings

More strike talk is happening because that's the toast of the town. Maybe some CNN and Chris Licht talk too. Plus: SAG joins the strike team; Spotify layoffs affect podcasting; CNN is in upheaval; and more.

• Disney and Comcast’s fight over Hulu

• SAG-AFTRA ready to vote for strike authorization

• As strike continues, upfronts focus on reality and sports

• Valve helped Nintendo get the Dolphin emulator removed from its own store

• Spotify doing podcast layoffs and combining the two studios it purchased

• Chris Licht’s CNN is a bunch of trouble

• Jeff Zucker speaks out on his CNN firing

• Licht tells CNN staff he’s not the story

• CNN’s crisis was born of Licht

• Licht is gone a week after Atlantic piece

• David Zaslav can’t treat CNN like he treats other networks, streamers

Episode 263 - And Then The Strike Happened

As the writer's strike continues, let's check out how the upfronts and Emmy For Your Consideration events have been dealing without writers and showrunners. Plus: ESPN will stream; no, David Zaslav, more bundles aren't coming; and Cannes feels the strike.

• ESPN plans to stream its channel too

• David Zaslav wants more bundles, but that’s not happening

• Cannes feeling the repercussions of the strike and potential ones

• How the upfronts dealt with lack of scripted shows

• Emmy season will be affected by writer’s strike

Episode 262 - Cash Those Checks

More WGA strike news! More streaming news! More of the same! Will this show ever change? Plus: Disney+ loses subs and changes are coming to how many projects they produce; MTV News is no longer around; and the villain for the writer's strike has been identified.

• Conan launches a FAST channel on Samsung

• NBCU and Amazon team up for local news on FAST channels

• Disney+ subscriber numbers fell again, streaming to lose titles and cool off on tons of episodes

• Vice could file for bankruptcy

• MTV News is out of business

• What the WGA is striking for

• A villain for the strike has been found

Episode 261 - Airshare

How much Roku bucks does Roku make by showing you ads? So many Roku bucks. Like so many. They're the only ones who'd admit it. You think Pluto TV or Freevee or Tubi would talk about their bucks? No way! Plus: Facebook Watch is done; studios think Wall Street is better than unions; and stop changing our movies/shows/books.

• Meta kills Facebook Watch

• How much money Roku pulls in with ads

• Hollywood shows Wall Street it can hang by cost cutting, makes Unions angry

• Popular E-books being updated show who really owns your classic literature

• Sony’s “clean movie initiative” from 2017

• Seth Rogen hates Sony’s R-to-PG initiative

• Sony plans to discontinue if Director’s Guild isn’t with it

• Mark Wahlberg’s Father Stu recut for re-release

• Steven Spielberg says recut E.T. was a mistake

Episode 260 - BuzzFeet News

BuzzFeed News is closing down. Now's time for BuzzFeet News: the hottest place to get feet news. Gross. Plus: AMC+ is also going ad supported; Netflix drops DVDs and Redbox wants them; the Writers Guild Association says it's okay to strike if they need to; and more!

• AMC+ getting ad-supported tier

• Netflix's DVD business will end in the fall

• Redbox wants the Netflix DVD business

• Hollywood writers approve of strike authorization

• Filming days in LA have dropped thanks to potential of strike

• BuzzFeed shuts down its news division