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The Hollywood Reporter

News, Entertainment News, Tv Reviews, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Top 5 of the Week: Headlines (0:58) Fox and Dominion with Alex Weprin (11:23) 'Twilight' Reboot (21:34) Showrunner Spotlight: Debora Cahn ('The Diplomat') (32:48) Critics Corner (1:12:07) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to episode 210 of TV's top five, the Hollywood Reporter's TV podcast.

0:07.0

I'm Leslie Goldberg, the West Coast TV editor.

0:09.6

And as always, I am joined by the one, the only the great.

0:13.8

Dan Feinberg, the Hollywood Reporter's chief TV critic.

0:16.5

What's happening, Dan?

0:17.6

There's a lot of TV, and that's pretty much all that's happening.

0:20.7

Well, I mean,

0:21.5

as the listeners know, there's also baseball season and whatnot, but, uh, but for, for the most

0:27.2

playoff basketball and playoff hockey and it's fine. So there's other, well, but those, you know

0:32.4

where I watch those things, Leslie? I watch those things on my TV, but also definitely want to wish our Earthling listeners

0:40.8

a happy Earth Day. So, so yes, and of course, happy 422, those who observe, even if it's a little

0:49.0

bit afterwards. Fair, fair. Well, let's get right into things. As usual, we lead off with the week's top headlines.

0:58.2

Number one. Up first, Stranger Things Creators, the Duffer Brothers, will executive produce The Burroughs, or Burroughs, a supernatural drama series that is from the creators of Netflix's very good and sadly prematurely canceled, The Dark Crystal Age of Resistance.

1:17.8

Do we know what it's about?

1:19.3

The little summary I saw made it seem a little bit like either cocoon or batteries not included.

1:26.1

It really just sounds like stranger things, but with older people.

1:29.4

Well, but I mean, what is what is cocoon or, uh, or batteries not included, if not,

1:35.0

stranger things with the old people?

1:36.2

So.

1:36.9

Yeah.

1:38.1

Elsewhere over at Paramount Plus, the long gestating Star Trek Discovery spinoff section 31 is moving forward, but the Michelle Yo-led project will no longer be a series, but rather a made-for-streaming movie.

1:52.3

As sources say, this is the beginning of phase two of Alex Kurtzman's Star Trek franchise on Paramount Plus.

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