Ep. 100 - 'The Pitt' S2E07 Shows When Compassion Is Needed The Most
Decoding TV
David Chen
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Decoding TV podcast, David and Patrick discuss what’s going on in the world of TV, then dive into the latest episode of The Pitt.
Why would Apple buy the rights to Severance? Will Paramount’s latest gambit to buy WBD succeed? And what the heck is going on with Stephen Colbert over at Late Night and his interview with James Talarico? Listen to hear us discuss all these questions and more.
Homework for next week:
- The Pitt Season 2 Episode 8 (HBO Max)
Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate):
- 02:30 - TV News
- Apple Buys Severance for $70MM
- Netflix reopens Paramount talks
- Stephen Colbert’s FCC Fiasco
- CBS Denies blocking interview
- Spider-Noir gets May 27 Release Date
- BW Corner:
- Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes
- Peter Attia not being fired
- HOTD Season 3 Teaser Trailer
- 50:00 - The Pitt Season 2
- Episode 7 - 2:00 P.M.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Decoding TV, a podcast about television. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm David Chen. |
| 0:05.6 | Joining me as usual, Patrick, Patrick, happy 100th episode of Decoding TV. |
| 0:13.4 | Where the, woo! |
| 0:15.0 | You know what? |
| 0:15.6 | I have a green screen I could pull up behind me. |
| 0:17.5 | I should have queued up some green screen confetti to go in the video version. |
| 0:24.4 | Anyway, yes, we've been doing this together in it. |
| 0:28.1 | Now, obviously, to be fair, the show has been running for quite a bit longer than 100 episodes in past iterations with different co-hosts and covering different shows. |
| 0:38.3 | But in this format, we've been going for 100 episodes. |
| 0:42.0 | And I do just want to say briefly, Patrick, it's been a blast doing the podcast with you. |
| 0:48.4 | And when we started this, I had no idea if we would be able to keep doing it for a variety of situational and financial factors. |
| 0:58.2 | But, but. |
| 1:00.1 | There have some wild twists and turns in Dave's career and personal locations along the way. |
| 1:06.8 | And geographic location. |
| 1:09.0 | But what's happened is I feel like you and I have really settled into a wonderful groove on the podcast. |
| 1:16.1 | Our listenership has grown and become very engaged with the stuff that we're doing week to week. |
| 1:22.1 | We've been so grateful to have them. |
| 1:23.9 | And paid subscribers at decodingTV.com have kept holding strong |
| 1:28.0 | and allowed us to keep doing this podcast week to week. |
| 1:31.1 | So I just want to thank all those groups of people. |
| 1:33.7 | Patrick, our listeners, and especially our paid subscribers who make this work possible. |
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