Golden Globes Nominations, Rewatching ‘Succession,’ and a ‘Landman’ Crash Course With Timothy Simons. Plus, Paramount’s Hostile Takeover.

The Watch

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.5 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Chris opens the show by reacting to the news that Paramount is mounting a hostile takeover in the wake of Netflix’s Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition (1:00). He is then joined by Timothy Simons to talk about the Golden Globes nominations and why the awards show can still platform lesser-known titles (4:15). Along the way, Tim runs through everything he’s been watching, including recent ‘Succession’ and ‘Girls’ rewatches (14:55). Later, they discuss the degree of difficulty required to pull off what Rhea Seehorn is doing on ‘Pluribus,’ the show’s biggest fan theories (29:52), and ‘Landman’ S2E4 (48:34). Subscribe to the Ringer TV YouTube channel here for full episodes of The Watch and so much more! Host: Chris Ryan Guest: Timothy Simons Producers: Kaya McMullen and Kai Grady Additional Video Supervision: Donald LoBianco Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.5	I need sports to have to clear the room.
0:30.7	Stand up and walk now.
0:33.0	Hello, and welcome to The Watch.
0:34.2	My name is Chris Ryan.
0:36.6	I am an editor at the ringer.com.
0:38.7	And joining me in the studio today shortly will be Tim Simons because Andy is traveling and Tim was nice enough to come by and guest host
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