HBO’s Wave of Renewals. Plus, ‘The Beast in Me,’ ‘The Chair Company’ E6, and ‘I Love LA’ E3.

The Watch

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.5 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Chris and Andy talk about the ongoing bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery and the news that Netflix’s offer would include theatrical releases (5:31), before reacting to the various renewal announcements from HBO including ‘Task’ and both ‘Game of Thrones’ spinoffs (12:23). Then they discuss the Netflix miniseries ‘The Beast in Me,’ starring Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys (30:51). Later, they check in on ‘The Chair Company’ (51:45) and ‘I Love LA’ (53:53). Subscribe to the Ringer TV YouTube channel here for full episodes of The Watch and so much more! Hosts: Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald Producers: Kaya McMullen and Kai Grady Additional Video Supervision: Sarah Reddy 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.
0:03.0	Stand up and walk now.
0:06.0	Hello and welcome to The Watch.
0:08.0	My name is Chris Ryan. I am an editor at the ringer.com and joining me in the studio, preparing his bear hug for Warner Brothers Discovery.
0:17.0	It's Andy Greenwald!
0:20.0	Have you talked to our guys, our finance guys?
0:22.2	They're moving some things around.
0:23.8	Yeah.
0:24.8	Do you ever move things around?
0:25.8	Do you have to move things around?
0:27.0	I'm not liquid like you.
0:28.4	Yeah.
0:29.2	No.
0:30.2	I've been told that there's a thing waiting for me in some unknown point on the horizon
0:36.1	called retirement, I guess, that might be there for me.
0:39.6	And my assumption is, when I get there, I can maintain my lifestyle in Los Angeles for six to
0:45.3	nine weeks.
0:45.9	Okay.
0:46.7	You can go to courage bagels twice.
0:48.4	And then that's it.
0:49.7	It's Andy Greenwald and Chris Ryan, the Tommy and Tim John of this patch. Today on The Watch, we're going to be talking a little bit about the Netflix series The Beast in Me. And some other stuff. I love L.A. chair company. I'll have a little bit of a note about all her fault. I'd like to hear about that. I thought you were going to say
1:10.9	I have an interview with
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