The 10 Worst Things to Happen to Hollywood Since 2010

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to look back on the past 15 years in Hollywood and determine which moments were the most detrimental to the industry. In descending order, they each rank and explain their top five moments that had the most meaningful and negative effect on the greater Hollywood ecosystem (01:53). Matt finishes the show with a prediction about Taylor Swift’s next act (29:57).For a 20 percent discount on Matt’s Hollywood insider newsletter, ‘What I’m Hearing ...,’ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Email us your thoughts! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Lucas Shaw Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you care about Hollywood, and I assume you do if you're listening to the town, you should really be getting the whole story about Hollywood. That's what you get with Puck. I'm a founding partner at Puck, and I write a newsletter called What I'm Hearing. It's got exclusive news for insiders and analysis of the biggest stories. Puck has a bunch of great journalists. We just hired Kim Masters, who also covers Hollywood from the inside, plus media, sports, fashion,
0:21.7	politics, and finance. It's a must have for plugged-in people. Fans of the town get a
0:26.6	discount on the description page of this episode or at puck.news slash the town. Go further into
0:32.1	Hollywood by becoming a puck member today. It is Monday, August 18th.
0:38.8	The history of the entertainment business has been technological disruption and change and
0:43.3	reinvention.
0:44.5	I remember back when I was at The Hullard Reporter, I used to look at the archives over
0:47.8	100 years and it was pretty remarkable to see how much the industry-wide freakouts over
0:52.8	color television or the VCR or TiVo.
0:56.5	They mirrored the modern debates about YouTube and Netflix and the streaming video industry.
1:01.2	The difference, of course, is that Hollywood was always able to adapt and merge and eventually subsume all the other technologies
1:07.2	and maintain its grip on the worldwide content distribution industry. Now, though,
1:12.8	with the internet having disrupted that oligarchy of distribution, the past 15 years have been a
1:18.3	slow march of disruptors refusing to be subsumed, and in fact becoming the subsumers of a new
1:24.4	version of Hollywood, one in which internet-enabled distribution has disrupted pretty much everything.
1:29.7	But it didn't happen all at once, and there's been a bunch of incremental moves since 2010 that we can now look back on as key moments in this painful transition.
1:37.6	That is today's show.
1:39.1	Lucas Shaw from Bloomberg is here.
1:40.6	We're going to rank the 10 worst things to happen to Hollywood in the streaming
1:45.0	era from the ringer in puck. I'm Matt Bellany and this is the town.
1:53.4	All right, we are here with Lucas Shaw from Bloomberg. Once again, welcome back, Lucas. The Dodgers
1:59.5	are back. They are back. They are back. I was in
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