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The Watch

HBO’s Upcoming TV Slate, the Many Ghosts of ‘Industry,’ and ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ E3

The Watch

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.55.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Chris and Andy talk about a handful of updates from HBO boss Casey Bloys on the current status of the network and what the immediate future looks like (6:30). Then they react to Jim Dycker’s downward spiral on the latest episode of ‘Industry’ and the many ghosts from seasons past that continue to haunt the show (19:43), before talking about the big reveal on ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Episode 3 (51:56). Later, The Watch: After Dark (1:04:38). Subscribe to the Ringer TV YouTube channel here for full episodes of The Watch and so much more! The Casey Bloys Deadline Interview Hosts: Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald Producers: Kaya McMullen and Kai Grady Additional Video Supervision: Jamie Yukich Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I need sports to have to clear the room.

0:07.0

Stand up and walk now.

0:11.0

Hello and welcome to The Watch.

0:13.0

My name is Chris Ryan.

0:15.0

I am an editor at the ringer.com and joining me in the studio

0:19.0

turning UltraVox up way too loud for this time of night. That was nice. It's Andy Greenwald! I love your energy. We're coming from different places right now. It's spiritually 1 p.m. in the afternoon for me. Maybe this is when I should be potting. Greenwald, great to see you. The watch at Spotify.com. The watchpod underscore on Instagram. You can watch us on

0:38.9

Rinner-Dash TV on YouTube. You can watch us and listen to us on Spotify. I'm back from Boston.

0:44.2

My hearing is intact. Great. I had a great, great, great weekend at something in the Wayfest.

0:50.1

Yasi and I went to do a live show with Pat Flynn from Fiddlehead and his new band.

0:56.5

How Much Art, who played over at something in the Wayfest, is awesome.

1:00.0

It's a good band name.

1:00.6

You got to check that band out.

1:02.8

We did a live show with him.

1:04.2

We did a live band Splame.

1:06.0

And then Yassie and I presented Repo Man at the Coolidge Corner Theater,

1:09.8

which is one of my favorite movie theaters in the country. And so great. So many people seeing Repo Man for the first time. That's fun. Young faces. Yeah. The CR demo getting younger, you know? Great. That's really good for it. I was worried, you know, you wonder whether you're going to, it's your your audience and you guys are just gonna die together, right? No, you are like the Wooderson of podcasting. That's right. I get older, these dudes keep discovering heat in exactly the same age. It's really worked out for you. No, it's great to see everybody, Boston was very friendly, a very cold. It was really awesome to just go to a music festival.

1:47.1

Eight degree weather,

1:48.3

but it was great.

1:49.5

I also loved this because I got,

1:51.6

right when we finished recording last week,

1:53.2

I got a little bit of insight into what the weekend would be like

1:56.9

because I was there for the dawn of my new favorite buddy comedy,

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