Episode 268 - Abe Forsythe

Abe Forsythe (Wolf Like Me) stops by to talk about the second season of the Peacock show Wolf Like Me and how it deals with his real life relationships. Plus: the streaming cable news landscape takes shape; a possible Disney+ and Hulu merger; NPR is thriving with clicks and more!

• CNN and NBC lead the way for streaming news

• Paramount is most likely done with limited series

• Is Disney planning on merging Disney+ and Hulu?

• NPR didn’t lose much traffic after leaving Twitter

• What artists lose when they cancel concerts

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 258 - Lyric Lewis

Lyric Lewis (A.P. Bio! Baskets! comedy!) stops by to talk about performing in front of live audiences from improv to multicamera comedies, having while getting laughs and her part in the new Night Court.

Plus: Yes, the The Bachelor creator is racist; Substack asks for money from its users; not many people are watching CNN; and more!

• “The Bachelor” producer accused of racial discrimination

• Substack may have lost a lot of money last year

• The Metaverse is being abandonded

• Diversity in streaming rises while other avenues stagnate

• CNN’s ratings dive

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