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The Watch

Our 2019 Anticipation Index and Why Amazon Is Keeping ‘Lord of the Rings’ Under Lock and Key | The Watch (Ep. 331)

The Watch

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.55.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

We break down the TV shows and movies we’re most excited for in 2019, including ‘Triple Frontier’ (6:11), 'Twilight Zone' (10:18), and ‘City on a Hill’ (23:40). Plus, why is Amazon keeping the writers' room for ‘Lord of the Rings’ under such strict lock and key (33:07)? Hosts: Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald Guest: Jason Concepcion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Liz Kelly and welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network.

0:05.4

This Sunday night after the final episode of True Detective, we'll be going live for

0:08.9

our last flat circle after show with Jason Concepcion and Chris Ryan.

0:13.3

You can stream that live on YouTube, Facebook and Periscope.

0:16.6

And while you're there, make sure to subscribe to our channel at youtube.com slash the ringer

0:20.8

as we near 100,000 subscribers.

0:23.4

Hey everybody, thank you for listening to today's episode of The Watch.

0:29.2

And while it's called in and we talked a little bit about a bunch of the movies and

0:33.2

TV shows that we were anticipating for the rest of 2019.

0:37.3

Kind of takes us up until the fall.

0:39.4

And there's a bunch of cool stuff there we gave each thing of reading and called it our

0:42.8

anticipation anticipation index.

0:45.7

And then second half of the show Jason Concepcion joined me to talk about this funny story that

0:50.4

came out about the Lord of the Ring show on Amazon and people having to give fingerprints

0:54.2

to get into the writers room.

0:56.1

But also just the way that that show is sort of being developed in public as a game of

1:01.7

Thrones competitor or as a game of Thrones replacement.

1:05.0

And then we also talked about what we're looking forward to and questions that we want answered.

1:09.2

As we head into the season finale of True Detective on Sunday, obviously Sunday is

1:13.5

Oscar's night, but we are going to be doing the flat circle live after the finale of

1:18.3

True Detective on Sunday night.

1:19.8

You can find us about 15 to 30 minutes after the episode ends on YouTube, Twitter and

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