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You're listening to episode 245 of TV's top five, the Hollywood Reporter's TV podcast.

I'm Leslie Goldberg, the West Coast TV editor here, and I'm joined, as always, by the great Dan Feinberg, the Hollywood Reporter's chief TV critic. How's it going, Dan? I'm fine. I feel like we would be remiss not to start with an acknowledgement of what a rough week it's been in the media world and to say that our thoughts and hearts go out to all of our friends and

compatriots who have been feeling that corporate pinch, everybody deserves better. And we all

deserve better media. So support your local media. Subscribe to a local newspaper. Subscribe to a

website that has a paper wall, etc. The media, it needs your help. Yes, absolutely. Support

journalism. Help us, help you. True story. How are you doing, though, Leslie? I'm good, man.

You know, it's just a shitty climate and it's just, you know, it's taking me back to 2009 when

the media landscape was also similarly impacted the way we've seen.

Like, as an L.A. native, what's happening with the L.A. Times is just heartbreaking to see.

And again, you said it best. So sending out all of our positive vibes to everyone impacted

by media layoffs this week and this month, because it's not going to get any better in our sector. And guess what? At least one of our topics this week is going to talk about layoffs in a different part of the media. So, you know, apparently that's just what's in the water. Yeah. You can call me the Grim Reaper of television and that's fine because, you know, I don't think I've written a cancellation story this week, but it does

feel like the writing has been on the wall with all the cancellations. We've seen a couple of

pre-fx reports on the state of PTEV saying officially the bubble has burst. We'll get that

information probably in February, time to TCA and FX's day before the press. So expect that formal tally to come in the next couple of weeks.

But yeah, before we get into all of that stuff,

I think we should start where we usually do, Dan, with headlines.

Number one.

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