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

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But first on the Hollywood news banter, a surprise choice to run DreamWorks,

and Netflix pays big bucks for a Fox TV show that hasn't even premiered on that network yet.

Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW.

I'm joined by my buddy and banter, Michael Schneider, of TV Guide magazine.

Hello, Michael.

Hello, Kim.

So, a surprise choice to run DreamWorks, the studio that Steven Spielberg founded some years ago with partners who are no longer there, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg.

Now it seems to be kind of the Steven Spielberg show.

Stacey Snyder,

we reported long ago, is due to go to Fox, to a big job at Fox. And there was a, you know,

speculation this kind of executive about town might get the DreamWorks job, that one might. And then Michael Wright from Turner, from a guy who oversees TBS and TNT and these Turner networks turns out to be the guy.

Yeah.

Well, so Michael Wright and Stephen Spielberg actually got to know each other very well on the show Falling Skies, which is a big hit for Turner and actually is about to go away after this season.

They would clash at times over the direction of the show.

Should it go more sci-fi, should

it go more sort of plot-driven or character-driven.

But I think out of that came a mutual respect and alike and an enjoyment of each other's

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