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THB #402: SVOD Dies, Streaming Format Was 19
September 22, 2026 Subscription Video On Demand was born in January 2007 to parents Reed Hastings of Los Gatos and Ted Sarandos of Hollywood. As an…
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THB #401a: Are We There Yet - Ep. 2
8:27 am, Erev Erev Erev Yom Kippur. (That means 3 nights away.) Rumor from Sherman Oaks is that everyone enjoyed the healthy green shakes provided by…
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THB #401: Are We There Yet? - Ep 1
It’s 9:34 am, Thursday September 21. WGA and AMPTP officials are meeting, hoping to make this the de facto last day of the WGA strike. They have never…
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THB #400: The Holdovers
The Holdovers is Alexander Payne’s 8th feature film in his 27-year career as a feature film director. For perspective, he directed his first feature 4…
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THB #399: Rhetoric Over Reality
I was going to do a “stuff I meant to write” column today, but what might be the first real negotiations of the WGA strike - obviously considering if…
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THB #398: The Weekend of Getting It
This may actually have been the most successful week of The Strikes for WGA and SAG in asserting pressure in the one way that really matters, peer to…
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THB #397: Whose Strike Is It Anyway?
As the guy who has been writing for a decade about Netflix’s financial system for operating a streamer as one that none of the Legacy companies could…
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