From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

The pandemic pummeled production, Warner started a war with its windows shattering sneak attack,

and Quibi, we hardly knew you.

It's a mega banter year in review.

Plus, NPR TV critic Eric Deggans helps us rate the streamers.

But first, the mega banter.

Stick around.

It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by double banter buddies, Matt Bellany, and Bloomberg reporter Lucas Shaw.

Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

Hey, Lucas.

Hey, Kim.

So, we have a lot of work to do to discuss this insane year.

Of course, we start with the pandemic.

The pandemic clobbered Hollywood and at the same time enabled the big companies that have

streamers and even if they don't, to pounce on ideas that they had

been playing with from some long time. So, Lucas, what do you think? I mean, we saw have different

strategies from the major legacy companies, and I'm counting the major ones now. I feel like

there's just a separate category of Disney and BC Uni and Warner Media because they are the ones with the big streamers.

And Paramount is supposed to have one sometime early next year, but right now they're not really in streamer land.

How do you see that these guys took advantage of the pandemic to make changes that they already wanted to make?

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