You're listening to TV's top five, the Hollywood Reporter's TV podcast. I'm Leslie Goldberg,

the West Coast TV editor, and I'm joined as usual by the great Dan Feinberg, THR's chief TV critic.

Hi, Dan. How you doing, Leslie? I'm good. I'm good. You know, it's a summer-like weather here in

L.A. It's my favorite time of year. Baseball's back. Sort of. I watched Freddie Freeman take it bats in a Dodger uniform. That was pretty cool. Okay. Again, we are not talking about baseball today. So don't work. You asked me how I was. That's how I am. I asked how you were, Leslie. I think of you as more than just the sum of your baseball parts.

Well, thank you. That's very kind. How are you, Dan?

Fine, baseball's back.

I see what you did there. But you've also been slammed. Like, there's so much TV this month, which we talked about, obviously, in our big March TV preview, but we're really in the thick

of it right now. Yes, we are definitely in the roughest portion of March.

And as we will talk about next week, because it will be April when we next speak to you,

dear listeners, April could possibly be even worse.

And, you know, at least there's actually good stuff coming out this week.

And that's a teaser to the Critics Corner at the end of the podcast.

It has lots of good stuff coming out.

Yeah, and before we get to that, we also have a great showrunner spotlight interview.

Dan, you want to talk a little bit about who's joining us this week?

Yes, we have Rose Matafayo, the star and creator of Starstruck, which I might have told

you in the past I like very much, and which I will tell you in the final segment I like

very much.

And then before that, you will have heard at least part of why I like the show so much, because

she is lots of fun, so I strongly recommend the

Showrinder Spotlight segments. And before we get into even that, let's just start where we

always start, Dan, what do you say? Leading off with headlines. Number one. Leading off this

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