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

I don't think that I could just go on Twitter and make funny jokes about the current administration

without somebody basically saying, you know, you're going to dig on Jeff Sessions.

What about the Lost finale?

Maybe Jeff Sessions could find out where the polar bears came from.

Writer producer Damon Lindeloff wrapped up the hit series Lost in 2010, and he still gets

lashed by fans who hated the ambiguous ending. Now, as Lindelof launches the final season of

The Leftovers on HBO, another series that revolves around a mystery, he's neither reading nor writing tweets.

He talks to Michael Schneider about deciding to end the leftovers after three seasons and

explains why his role as a showrunner puts him in a painful position if there's another

writer's strike. But first on the news banter, advertisers flee Bill O'Reilly's show.

What's a Murdoch to do?

Stay tuned. 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, I'm not great with numbers.

So several numbers I'm losing track of. How many women have settled sexual harassment complaints against Bill O'Reilly

at Fox News? How many advertisers are dropping the show? We don't know for how long. How much can

Fox News stand the pain? How much money have they spent to settle these lawsuits? We do know

that they make a lot of money from O'Reilly's show. Yeah, they make, according to Cantar

media over a three-year period, they made almost $450 million in revenue from the O'Reilly Show,

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