Jim Miller on HBO’s new home; Alan Yang on a very different season of “Master of None”

Channels with Peter Kafka

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Business News, News, Tv & Film, Technology

4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Jim Miller was finishing up a book about HBO and then… the story changed. He talks to Recode’s Peter Kafka about what may change now that AT&T is handing the service - along with the rest of WarnerMedia — to Discovery. Then writer, producer, and director Alan Yang join to discuss his career, the upcoming season of the Netflix hit Master of None which he co-created with comedian Aziz Ansari, and what he thinks of the current state of the movie and TV industry. Featuring: Jim Miller (@jimmiller), Reporter and Author Alan Yang (@alanyang), Writer, Director, and Producer Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.7	this is re-code media with peter kofka that is me and it has not been a slow news week. If you're listening
1:11.9	to a podcast about the business of media and tech and how they mash together, I don't need
1:17.4	to tell you that AT&T is in the process of pretending it never paid more than $100 billion for
1:22.4	the company formerly known as Time Warner. You probably also have heard that Amazon may or may not be buying an actual
1:28.5	Hollywood studio, MGM. It's the home of James Bond primarily. We're not going to talk about the
1:34.3	Amazon MGM story yet because we're not really sure how it's going to play out. So we'll come back to
1:38.3	that. We are going to talk about AT&T and Warner Media and Discovery and HBO briefly because I talked with
1:44.8	James Andrew Miller who's a journalist who does these great oral histories of
1:48.9	big American cultural institutions like ESPN like SNL like CAA the talent agency
1:55.0	and he's in the process of writing a book about HBO so this was a timely
2:00.2	conversation since he has to rip up a big
2:02.0	chunk of it and write a new end chapter, I guess. So we talked about that. We talked about
2:06.3	what all of this might mean for HBO, the actual television programming entity that some
2:12.0	40 million people still really care a lot about. That is a good conversation. It's a short one.
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