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I'm Ben Domenech.

I'm happy to be joined right now by my colleague at The Spectator, Ross Anderson.

Thank you so much for taking the time to join me today

for an end of year conversation about the things that entertained us,

the movies and TV that we enjoyed,

that we hated, that drove the industry crazy

because we didn't like it as much as we ought to. That was true of a lot of things

that came out this year from my perspective. And just a general conversation about where things are

going in that vein. Ross, thanks so much for taking the time to join me. Thanks for having me, Ben.

Always fun to chat. So first off, I wanted to just ask you, when you look at the shape of 2024, how much did

the impact of the writer strikes and everything else play out in terms of its effect on

the kind of television and movies that we got?

So I think the biggest effect is something we haven't really even seen yet.

It's that there are programs that should have had second seasons or third seasons this

year, that films that should have come out this year that got delayed.

Part of that is part of that is sort of excuse making.

So Cap'N America, a New World Order or whatever it's called, that was technically, you know, who knows when that was supposed to come out.

They've done some reshoots that have done rewrites and they can blame, oh, we couldn't do these various things because of the writer's drags.

Severance season two, severance season one was amazing with Ben Stiller, directed by Ben Stiller for Apple TV Plus.

That was supposed to come out nowish, but because the writer's strike got delayed.

And then the shows like House of the Dragon or the Netflix show with the girl from

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