Felix Gillette & John Koblin (on the Rise, Revolution, and the Future of HBO)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 69.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Felix Gillette is the enterprise editor for Bloomberg News & John Koblin is a media reporter for The New York Times. Felix and John join the Armchair Expert to discuss how HBO became one of the premiere television networks in America, how their original shows changed the landscape of television, and why they wanted to write a book about it - It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and the Future of HBO. Felix, John, Dax, and Monica talk about which HBO shows are their all-time favorites, how streaming services have changed how networks produce content, and what impact HBO has had on American pop culture. Felix and John explain where the HBO tagline came from, how they developed such a great documentary division, and how they think the recent Discovery HBO merger will change the platform. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert Experts on Expert. I'm joined by Monica Pat.
0:05.0	Hi.
0:06.0	Hello, we get to have a juicy conversation today about our favorite, are we allowed to say
0:11.0	our favorite, our favorite network?
0:12.0	Yeah, sure. Yeah, HBO.
0:14.0	It's not TV. That's the title of the book written by our guests today.
0:18.0	Felix Gillette and John Koblen. Felix is the Enterprise Editor for Bloomberg News Media, Entertainment, and Telecom
0:26.2	Team as well as the feature writer for Bloomberg Business Week.
0:29.4	John Copeland is a media reporter for the New York Times covering the television industry and as
0:34.3	previously mentioned they have a really cool book called it's not TV the
0:37.8	spectacular rise revolution and the future of HBO what's really unexpectedly fun about this interview to me was the
0:45.3	trip down memory lane of all the shows over the years. Yeah. No it's a really fun
0:49.8	kind of oral history we got of the whole network.
0:53.0	Yeah, it's pretty juicy.
0:54.0	Yeah.
0:55.0	Please enjoy Felix Gillette and John Koblin.
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