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From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

Some of the critics would say, oh, come on, this couple isn't stupid.

Why would they put up with it?

I'm thinking, we put up with it for years.

We all put up with it.

That's what you do.

If you want to do it, you have to play this stupid game. Jeffrey Clarek and David Crane co-created the Sharp Showtime Satire episodes, starring Matt LeBlanc as a fairly heinous version of himself.

Episodes follows a British couple who face the worst of Hollywood when they're asked to make an American version of their acclaimed show.

The creative duo behind it based it on their experiences

on friends and mad about you, and they're not shy about listing ways that Showtime could show

them a little more love. But first on the news banter, media stocks take a shalacking, and we

finally get a glimpse of TLC's costs in canceling 19 kids and counting.

Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my banter buddy, Michael Schneider, at TV Guide magazine. Hello, Michael.

Hello, Kim. You are at the Television Critics Association gathering

in the lovely Beverly Hills Hilton. And meanwhile, while you were sitting there this past week,

endlessly looking at one presentation after another from the networks and the streaming services,

now it's expanding to the point of being really almost beyond human

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