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🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 88 minutes

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This Weeks Top 5 Topics: Netflix earnings and repercussions (4:15) IATSE strike update, with Katie Kilkenny (17:18) 'Y the Last Man' cancelled (22:43) Showrunner Spotlight: Prentice Penny ('Insecure') (34:35) Critics Corner (1:18:20) Welcome to TV's Top 5! Each episode features The Hollywood Reporter's West Coast TV Editor Lesley Goldberg and Chief TV Critic Daniel Fienberg breaking down the latest industry headlines. The podcast is broken into five segments, offering a deep-dive analysis of the latest TV news and a critical look at current and upcoming shows. Every episode of the weekly podcast includes an in-depth interview with one of the industry's most powerful showrunners or an up-and-coming new voice. Have an industry question you’d like to hear us address in a Mailbag segment? Email us at TVsTop5@THR.com. Stay tuned for future episodes and be sure to subscribe. Hosted by: Lesley Goldberg and Daniel Fienberg Produced by: Matthew Whitehurst Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 141 of TV's top five, the Hollywood Reporter's TV podcast.
0:05.0	I'm Leslie Goldberg, West Coast TV editor, and I'm joined by my friend, co-host, and
0:10.0	THR's chief TV critic, Dan Feinberg. Hey, Dan, what's up?
0:14.0	Oh, you know, just keeping busy trying to avoid the pain of baseball season maybe or maybe not going down the drain.
0:22.2	We'll see if by the time people listen to this, if our respective interests in baseball
0:27.2	are no longer applicable or if we are still holding on to a threat of hope.
0:32.5	Yeah.
0:33.4	Yeah.
0:34.1	Well, as we record this, it's Thursday afternoon.
0:36.0	I got tickets for tonight.
0:38.3	Man, the Dodgers need to get actually hit.
0:41.6	They need a hit.
0:42.4	Highest scoring team in the National League can't score a run to save it alive right now.
0:46.2	And the Red Sox went from being the hottest team in baseball for two games,
0:50.0	hitting grand slams at every turn to suddenly being unable to swing the bat.
0:53.9	So October baseball is a fickle, fickle bitch, and that's just how it goes.
0:59.4	Well, I can't put it any better than you just did, Dan.
1:01.9	So let's just dive straight into headlines.
1:06.0	Up first, Mel Gibson will be the lead in The Continental, the John Wick prequel miniseries
1:12.1	at Stars.
1:13.3	The casting has, as you might imagine, reigniting conversations about the actor's history
1:20.5	of anti-Semitic comments, racist comments, homophobic comments, his no-comit plea on battery
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