Here Be Monsters is a show that invites you to explore fear and the unknown.

I saw her face change. I saw her see where I'd pulled my hair out.

Psychological warfare was always considered kind of an oddity, something done by freaks.

On the count of three, we're literally going to step out of our body.

Step out.

You can find Here Be Monsters Now at KCRW.com or wherever you get your podcasts.

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Schneider of IndieW and Variety, filling in for Kim Masters, and this is the business.

My feeling is good ideas can be pretty cheap if you have them early enough.

So some of the things that people really loved about our show were things that we talked about in the first two hours of our first meeting.

When director Thomas Kale took a break from Broadway's Hamilton to take on the TV musical Greece Live on Fox, he had

a very specific vision for the complicated production, and his plan worked.

Greece Live was a hit, and Cale's revival raised the bar on TV musicals.

We talked to the Tony winning director, who now has an Emmy nomination as well.

Then another Emmy nominee, actor Sterling K. Brown, tells us how he prepared to play

prosecutor Chris Darden in the FX Limited series The People versus OJ Simpson. But first, on the

Hollywood news banter, the fight for Viacom is over and Philippe Domain is on the way out and with a hefty

parachute. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. I am joined by my partner in banter,

Matt Bellany of the Hollywood Reporter. Hello, Matt. Hi, Mike. So the long feud between the 93-year-old

mogul Sumner Redstone and now former or about to be former Viacom's CEO Philippe Doman

appears to be over. So Viacom's board has met and they're finalizing a settlement between both

parties before they're forced to go to trial, which saves them from having to air lots of dirty laundry,

especially around Sumner Redstone's health and mental competency. Matt, what do you make of this?

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