From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

I sat down and they were like, you know what, we're sick of our ideas. Do you have any?

And I, like, really, truly did not, which just for any writers out there, just always have an idea in your back pocket because it's just better to be prepared.

And I really didn't have anything.

A couple of years ago, TV writer Liz Feldman,

a veteran of the Ellen DeGeneres show and two broke girls, took a casual meeting with some

producers. She'd been told she didn't need to come with any specific ideas. Turns out she kind of did.

The previous week, Feldman had lost a family member unexpectedly and found out that her fertility

treatment had failed again. So Feldman was immersed in loss and asked to deliver an idea

on the spot. That informed her response. Thus the seeds were planted for the Netflix dromedy,

dead to me. A wickedly funny show about grief. Feldman tells us about a twisty career

path that led to her twisty, turning new show. But first on the news banter, Fox guards its henhouse.

Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my associate banterter. Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter. Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

So there was a case that we, I think we talked about in our year ahead banter. This litigation that was brought by Fox, which now, of course, is part of Disney. So it's Fox and Disney against Netflix. And Netflix, as we have discussed, has been trying to bulk up as other studios are starting their streaming services.

And, you know, they're going to take back important pieces of Netflix programming that Netflix

doesn't own. Netflix is ramping up originals like crazy, spending a damn fortune. We are all witnessing this,

huge deals. And as they're doing that, they're poaching a lot of executives and they poached

some from Fox. And Fox kind of went to court and said, hey, you know, you cannot interfere with

our relationships with our employees. And the court has only issued a tentative ruling saying that it's going

to side with Fox in this dispute. Assuming that that sticks, that means that a gigantic disruption

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