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Desus and Mero Talk Obama and Their Showtime Evolution

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The Hollywood Reporter

Tv Reviews, Entertainment News, News, Tv & Film

4.6527 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

The five topics that Lesley and Dan cover in quarantine this week are: HBO Max's fourth-quarter subscriber gains (4:47) TV world loses two icons this week (13:19) Pandemic causes lackluster TV premiere lineup (26:10) Showrunner Spotlight: Desus Nice and The Kid Mero ('Desus & Mero') (36:01) Critics Corner (1:20:26) Welcome to TV's Top 5! Each episode features The Hollywood Reporter's West Coast TV Editor Lesley Goldberg and Chief TV Critic Daniel Fienberg breaking down the latest industry headlines. The podcast is broken into five segments, offering a deep-dive analysis of the latest TV news and a critical look at current and upcoming shows. Every episode of the weekly podcast includes an in-depth interview with one of the industry's most powerful showrunners or an up-and-coming new voice. Have an industry question you’d like to hear us address in a Mailbag segment? Email us at TVsTop5@THR.com. Stay tuned for future episodes and be sure to subscribe. Hosted by: Lesley Goldberg and Daniel Fienberg Produced by: Matthew Whitehurst Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to episode 105 of TV's top five, the Hollywood Reporter's TV podcast.

0:35.4

I'm Leslie Goldberg, West Coast TV editor, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host and THR's chief TV critic, Dan Feinberg. Dan, how you holding up this week, my friend? It's been chilly in Los Angeles this week, Leslie. I know our listeners don't love it when we talk about politics or baseball, so I feel like it's a good idea to lead by talking about the weather. And it's been darn cold. I mean, it got into the lower 40s, I think, on Monday. That's crazy. It got into the 30s here in Burbank. So, yeah, this is fascinating, Dan. It is. I see, I'm giving our listeners what they didn't know they wanted, or else showing our listeners that what they

1:11.3

do want is more politics and baseball and less weather. Yes. Or we could talk about those

1:16.4

Netflix ratings and how Bridgeton is Netflix's most watch show ever if you just only take into

1:22.1

count two minutes of viewing. As I say, every single time we do this, I have zero doubt that

1:28.9

Bridgerton is a hugely popular show for Netflix. I do not doubt that at all. I've seen the

1:34.8

TikTok musical numbers. I've seen the way people talk about that show. There is no question

1:40.6

that that show is wildly successful, but I have no ability to make any sense,

1:47.5

nor do I have any desire to make any sense of whatever the bleep, 82 million people watching

1:53.0

15 seconds is about, but we talked about this in completion rates last week, and I still

1:57.7

have the same completion rate humor that I'm going to do if we carry on, if we carry on for much longer. So I think we should probably get to this week. And I still have the same completion rate humor that I'm going to do if we carry on,

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