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You're listening to episode 229 of TV's Top 5, the Hollywood Reporter's TV podcast. I'm Leslie Goldberg, the West Coast TV editor, and I'm joined, as always, by the one, the only, the great, the terrific, Mr. Daniel Feinberg, the Hollywood Reporter's Chief TV critic. How's going, Dan?

It goes. Welcome back. I mean, we're all back. Welcome back. Welcome back listeners.

Welcome back Leslie. Welcome back me. Welcome back us all.

We hope you didn't miss us too much last week, but we had lots of other things to be doing. So, you know, but now we're back, and we still have lots of other things to be doing

because there's still lots of stuff happening in Hollywood. Yeah, entering the fourth month of the

strike, no talks currently slated to resume anytime soon. As of our recording time, it's now Thursday

afternoon, about 1 o'clock on the West Coast here. Getting some

nice end of summer vibes here, but I know temperatures are going to heat back up again. I'm,

I for one, I'm sad for the end of summer because it's my favorite time of year. But I'm

interested in what comes next with the strikes. I'm really like the rest of the town,

if you follow any writers

on Twitter, the exhaustion is real and it's affecting everyone. Whether you're reporting on it,

whether you're personally affected by it, everyone is ready for this thing to end. And it's just

sadly, as of right now, no end is inside. If nothing else, though, I am pleased that these strikers and picketers

will not need to be doing so in 100 plus degree temperatures in the valley for much longer. So, ideally, I'd like them to get a deal that they're happy with. They don't need to be doing it at all, but if they're doing it, I don't want them to boil. Yeah. As the strikes continue to linger on, we're going to start where we have been in recent weeks with a mini mailbag segments because, well,

deal. want them to boil. Yeah. As the strikes continue to linger on, we're going to start where we have been in recent weeks with a mini mailbag segments because, well, dealmaking has slowed. And I'm

just presuming that all of our listeners read THR and the regular and can follow along when shows

get renewed and canceled because there have been a few of those recently. Obviously with the Labor

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