‘Looking for Alaska,’ Adaptation in the Post-Movies Age, and the Apple Content Slate | The Watch

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Tv & Film

4.5 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

We preview Hulu’s upcoming original series ‘Looking for Alaska’—the first TV adaptation of a John Green novel (0:54). Then we talk about how ‘Looking for Alaska’ and HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ are two prime examples of content that would’ve been made into a movie in a previous decade but are now being serialized as TV (15:30), before running down the list of Apple streaming shows set to release soon (22:50). Hosts: Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's episode of The Watch is brought to you by Google Assistant.
0:03.3	The Google Assistant is ready to help you get more done with just your voice in the car
0:07.8	at home and everywhere you take your phone.
0:10.4	With Halloween right around the corner, I can just say,
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0:22.2	I need sports to have to clear the room.
0:30.6	Stand up and walk now.
0:33.9	Hello and welcome to The Watch.
0:35.8	My name is Chris Ryan.
0:37.0	I am editor at TheRinger.com and joining me in the studio, it's my Dr. Do Little, Andy
0:43.9	Griebal.
0:44.9	Look at yourself, man.
0:46.4	Look at yourself.
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0:48.4	Listen, I just feel like people need to know the truth.
0:51.3	It's Wednesday, by the way, so you'll hear this Thursday, but we're recording it Wednesday
0:54.2	if anything happens.
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0:57.6	I was away from the studio for a while for like a week, well, in five months.
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