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From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

You know, there are places in the TV series that seem to have been fished straight out of my dreams.

It's quite uncanny.

Hillary Mantell had many suitors for their rights to her award-winning novels, Wolf Hall,

and Bring Up the Bodies. The winning pitch came from producer Colin Callender,

and the Wolf Hall miniseries, already a big hit on the BBC, is now on PBS.

Mantell and Calendar tell us about adapting a novel set in the 16th century for 21st century television.

But first on the news banter, a new host for the Daily Show, and a major defection of agents

and clients from CAA.

Stay tuned.

It's the business from KCRW.

I'm joined by my banter buddy, Michael Schneider, of TV Guide magazine.

Hello, Michael.

Hello, Kim.

So, Michael, wow, Trevor Noah.

Trevor Noah named, and I'm not, I have to say, I wasn't entirely shocked.

I caught him on the daily show.

I thought, this is a guy who feels to me like he could potentially be in their minds as a

placement for John Stewart. Sure enough, they announce him, and then 20 seconds later, social media

jumps on this guy in a big way. Yeah, you know, critics, fans, people are mostly hailing the choice.

It seemed like an inspired, different, unique, original choice.

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