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

A Thread.

So I went out with three shows this year.

I love them all for different reasons.

Two have already been passed on.

Beautiful little shows.

The heartache is real, but this is the gig.

Gloria Calderon-Kellet writes, produces, and sometimes directs the Netflix sitcom one day at a time.

That title also describes the best way to survive pilot season, those nerve-wracking months early in the year when broadcast networks pick just a few new scripts that will get an order for a sample episode.

Hoping to launch a new show this year, Calderon Kellett had some scripts in contention,

and she decided to tweet her pilot season experience and offer some advice along the way.

Today, she gives us a dramatic reading of a few of those threads. But first, double banter. First,

the news banter. Skydance gets some more blowback after putting

John Lasseter in charge of its animation division. Then, bonus Oscar banter. Stick around. It's

the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my associate in banter, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter. Hello, Matt. Hi there. So this week, we saw the beginning of some blowback against Skydance. Skydance, David Ellison, the billionaire heir of Larry Ellison, the multi-multi billionaire. You know, he has his own company. It's not a public company. He hired John Lasseter after Lasseter departed Disney and Pixar animation because of allegations of misconduct. You know, there was immediate blowback. I was kind of surprised how many women went on the record to say how distressed they were. There was just a feeling that John Lasseter had not

shown any sign of having truly searched his soul, having truly understood what was wrong at Disney and

Pixar. And there was a feeling that he kind of tried to apologize without really apologizing

by press release. You know, he did have a town hall with the staff, but the optics were not good.

And in the aftermath, we have found that Emma Thompson, who was supposed to be and was recording,

a role in a movie called Luck, which was a green-lighted project, has departed that project

because of John Lasseter. And that's a big deal, because not just what it says about Emma Thompson and her decision,

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