You're listening to TV's top five, the Hollywood Reporter's TV podcast. I'm Leslie Goldberg,

West Coast TV editor, and I'm joined by the great Dan Feinberg, THR's chief TV critic. How's it going,

Dan? It's a rainy day in Los Angeles, so it's going gloomily, but also we're in a drought. So

yay rain. How are you doing, Leslie? I'm all right, my friend. You know, look,

this is our 146th episode and it's our first back from Thanksgiving. I did make Dan skip the show

last week. I kind of needed, I didn't kind of need, I desperately needed a mental health break,

but we're back this week and we're ready to change things up a little bit.

So rather than starting the show with our usual headline segment, we're deciding that that's

going to be our first topic from here on out. Maybe it'll lead to a little bit more banter to open

the episodes, Dan. But either way, we're likely going to have more to say about the week's top

headlines. It seems possible.

Anyway, this is an ever-evolving podcast, and so maybe moving headlines to our number one segment.

We'll shake things up in the rhythm.

And hell, we're always looking for new angles, new opportunities, new approaches, and with a new year

coming up, seems like a perfectly fine time to do that.

That's right.

And, you know, this week's episode is going to feature Alan Seppinwall, the return of Firewall

and Iceberg to talk succession as season three heads into its finale.

Other topics include how FX is leaning harder into becoming a brand of its own.

And yes, for the fifth time, I counted, the fifth time this year, we're going to talk about Jeopardy, Dan.

Ah, it feels like at least six or seven, Leslie.

Well, let's dive right into it.

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