Episode 281 - Tourettes with Song Lyrics

Physical media is evaporating. What's a boy to do? And women aren't winning BAFTAs or being hired to work in movies.

• Disney sends its DVD unit to Sony

• Disney Movie Club shuttering

• Fubo suing over the giant sports streaming platform from WBD, Disney and Fox

• Black women haven't won BAFTA’s in almost 80 years

• Women lead films total fell

• Paramount and Comcast considering a streaming team up

Episode 257 - News Happens

Forget 60 Minutes; we're about to launch a show called 60 Seconds. Longform stories done short. That's what this TikTok generation needs. Yeah. I'm right. Plus: Anderson Cooper is doing 60 Minutes-style work for CNN; Spotify is not betting on diversity; and video game preservation gets more tricky thanks to Nintendo.

• Anderson Cooper to help usher in newsmagazine style show for CNN

• Spotify spent not very much of its diversity fund

• BAFTAs say diversity isn't t a problem since they nominate older white women too

• Nintendo makes game preservation difficult

• The Completionist spends nearly $25,000 buying everything in the eShop before it closes

Episode 253 - Josh Johnson

Josh Johnson (comedian! HOLD UP with Dulcé Sloan and Josh Johnson!) returns to C+ Comedy to talk about his latest hour -- Up Here Killing Myself. He and Chad talk about their first interview, the special's therapy based wrap arounds, and difficulties growing up without money!

Check out the special on Peacock. Follow Josh on Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and TikTok.

Plus: Night Court is the model for ad sales now on NBC; Warner Bros Discovery takes umbrage with Paramount's South Park stinginess; and the BAFTA's had all white winners again.

• Microsoft to bring Xbox games to NVIDIA’s cloud streaming

• YouTube Music getting podcasts while Google Podcasts is set to stay

• NPR to lose 10% of its workforce after advertising slowdown

• Night Court’s ad selling to be the framework of other NBC shows

• CNN’s new 9PM show is almost ready

• South Park at the center of lawsuit between Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount

• BAFTA’s white winners suggest the UK film industry be examined as a whole

Episode 140 - Flippy Flirty

So much is happening right now! The show is back from a much needed month long hiatus. Not much has changed except everything is much sloppier. Topics include women director, protagonist numbers marching upwards; CollegeHumor layoffs; diversity in film and way more.

YouTube streams count towards Billboard charts: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/13/arts/music/billboard-youtube-charts.html

Kids YouTube changes: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/12/20/21025139/youtube-kids-coppa-law-ftc-2020

Richard Plepler on his 5 year deal with Apple: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/business/media/richard-plepler-apple.html

IGN review system gets simpler: https://www.ign.com/articles/2020/01/02/announcement-igns-review-scale-just-got-simpler

CollegeHumor goes through massive layoffs: https://www.vulture.com/2020/01/collegehumor-layoffs-sale.html

Female film director numbers up to 12%: https://www.thewrap.com/women-directed-record-12-of-top-100-grossing-films-in-2019-study-finds/

Female film protagonists up to 40%: https://www.thewrap.com/female-protagonists-2019-films/

BAFTA acknowledges lack of diversity in 2020 nominations: https://variety.com/2020/film/news/bafta-nominations-lack-of-diversity-1203459074/

Diversity in film and TV in 2019/2020: https://deadline.com/2020/01/hollywood-diversity-2009-strides-film-tv-representation-inclusion-1202817299/

So much is happening right now! The show is back from a much needed month long hiatus. Not much has changed except everything is much sloppier. Topics includ...