From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business. Veteran producer David Friendly's many

film credits include three Big Mama's House movies. But as Hollywood became less friendly toward his

type of mid-budget picture, he pivoted to television. Now, with his USA TV series, Queen of the

South, wrapping up after five seasons, he's finding that adapting yet again in an industry obsessed with streaming is hard, even after years of success.

Used to be, you knew, at every studio, who to take comedy to, who to take drama to.

I mean, good luck at Netflix. You're talking about hundreds of different people

on different teams. That makes it quite a bit more difficult and sometimes dizzying. Friendly joins us

for a frank discussion about another moment of transition in his career. But first, some banter buddies

fill in while I'm on break. Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW.

I'm Matt Bellany filling in for Kim Masters this week, and I'm joined by my banter

buddy, Lucas Shaw.

Hi, Lucas.

Hey, Matt.

So this past week, it finally happened.

A tech company swooped in, bought a studio, in this case Amazon buying MGM, a 97-year-old studio.

It is a shell of its former self, we can say that.

But it is a formerly major Hollywood studio, got about 4,000 titles in its library.

And Amazon paid $8.4 billion for this

property. And my first reaction was finally, we've been talking about this for how many years,

about when a big tech company was going to come in and do this. And secondly, it is kind of the

end of an era in the beginning of a new one. This is a new salvo in the streaming wars.

Amazon has indicated they are coming to play.

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