From KCRW, I'm Michael Schneider, executive editor of Indie Wire, filling in for Kim Masters,

and this is the business.

You know, I am really at the beginning of a large learning curve that others have been working on their whole lives.

I've spent 30 years working in front of an audience, so I got a lot of catch and up to do.

Television writer-producer Chuck Lorry created some of the most successful sitcoms ever,

including Two and a Half Men and the Big Bang Theory.

This fall, he's got yet another show on the CBS lineup called Young Sheldon.

But this time, he's working with a single camera and no live audience,

which for Lori is outside his comfort zone.

He tells us why he wanted to try something different

with the Big Bang Theory prequel Young Sheldon,

and he talks about another new show

that Kathy Bates' pot comedy disjointed.

That show had him turning to Netflix

after the broadcast networks caught a whiff

of the scripts about weed and said pass.

But first on the news banter,

it's been a bummer of a summer at the box office. Stick

around. It's the business from KCRW. I am joined by my partner in banter, Matt Bellany of the

Hollywood reporter. Hello, Matt. Hi there. So Matt, we're ending the summer with another

depressing box office story.

One of the worst box offices in the last two decades.

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