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

After filmmaker Raul Peck made his award-winning James Baldwin documentary,

I Am Not Your Negro, he had a lot of suitors in Hollywood.

But it was HBO that didn't blink when Peck explained what he wanted to do next.

On my contract, it was clearly stated.

It's a film about colonization, extermination, and genocide.

You know, that's one of the rare case that you have those three words on the contract in Hollywood.

That evolved into a four-part series that zigz and zags through 700 years of colonial history. Peck tells us about blending archival

footage, animation, home videos, and scripted sequences to create, exterminate all the brutes,

his very personal meditation on white supremacy through the ages. But first we banter. Stay tuned.

It's the business from KCRW. I am joined by my partner in

banter. Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt. Hi there. So we have some streaming data. We can parse over a little bit.

Netflix had a miss. You know, it's funny. Netflix thought it was going to have

six million new subscribers, didn't, got a little bit punished on Wall Street. And there's been some

debate with certain people saying, my God, is this it? Has Disney Plus and HBO Max? Have they

changed the world? And is Netflix going to falter? And other people saying, oh, big deal.

Netflix is still huge.

Where do you come down?

I think a lot of this freak out is really overblown.

I mean, if you look at the events of the past year, of course Netflix growth is slowing.

I mean, they've been impacted by the pandemic in the sense that their content pipeline has been slowed.

So there weren't as many new shows in the past quarter.

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