On To the Point, we try to make sense of the policy debates and the political sideshows on the campaign trail.

But what about the promise to build the wall and make Mexico pay for it?

There's no longer an onus for the candidates to take substantive stands.

Nobody knows where the Republican Party is going to land.

I mean, it's kind of like a country road. No one knows where it will end.

I'm Warren Alney. To the Point has you covered for the 2016 campaign. Find the To the Point podcast on KCRW's iTunes page. From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the

business. I was going to walk away for a million bucks.

I wasn't going to fuck up Superman.

He was really some kind of a childhood fulfillment.

Director Richard Donner was thrilled when he was offered a million dollars to direct the original Superman movie in the 1970s.

But he hated the script, and when the producers refused to let him hire a new screenwriter,

Donner put it all on the line.

The veteran filmmaker tells us the crazy story of the first comic book blockbuster.

But first on the news banter, does anyone still want their MTV?

And Asian characters get whitew. Stick

around. It's the business from KCRW. I'm joined by my fellow banterer, Michael Schneider,

now of Indie Wire and Variety. Congratulations on the new gig. And hello, Mike. Thank you, Kim. Good to be here.

So let us start with morning television drama. It seems like these TV shows, which are really

truly big business for the broadcast networks, they're all perky and smiling at the camera.

But behind the scenes, it seems like there's always a lot of crazy going on. And the latest round

is Kelly Ripper is said to be

ripped and Ripped, fill in the rest of the word, about the departure of Michael Strayhan, her

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