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Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the Time calls it one of the biggest shows on Earth.

For your Emmy consideration, 21 nominations including outstanding drama series.

My guest today is a bona fide TV legend,

an actor best known for his portrayal of the bartender Sam Malone

on NBC's Cheers from 1982 through 1993,

which brought him 11 of his 16 Emmy nominations and both of his Emmy wins and

whose other credits include Becker, curb your enthusiasm, damages, bored to death,

CSI, Fargo, and most recently another peacock network comedy series the

massively acclaimed The Good Place for which he won the best actor in a comedy series

Critics Choice Award earlier this year, and is now

nominated for the Best Actor in a Comedy Series Emmy, the great Ted Danson.

But first I was joined at the offices of the Hollywood reporter by Pamela McClintock, a senior film writer here and our resident box office expert to dissect how American moviegoers have behaved over the last few months as we enter the dog days of summer.

Pam, thanks for joining us.

You're welcome, good to be here.

Well, I want to begin with the movie

that we've been talking about these last two weeks,

and that is Mission Impossible Fallout.

Paramount is the distributor of it, and they have really had an interesting year,

thanks to unexpected in some ways films.

There was a quiet place early on, then Book Club, and now Mission Impossible

Fallout, which has been the number one movie

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