From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want next time.

This week. What's with him? Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood. Hollywood.

This week on the business, the creators of the acclaimed TV drama damages.

They talk about making a new home on direct TV after FX canceled their show last year.

Plus, one last story from our Moth Story Slam. This one takes us to the dark side of

I Love Lucy. But first, it's the Hollywood news banter. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

You can imagine Hollywood everything has really driven by making money.

What's with him?

I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood.

I'm joined by my fellow banterer, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times.

Hello, John.

Hello, Kim.

So, John?

The Lone Ranger.

Is he riding into the sunset?

I am alluding, of course, to the gigantic.

Jerry Bruckheimer produced,

Gore Verbinski directed Johnny Depp starring project at Disney. That is the team that brought you

more than one Pirates of the Caribbean. And this was a staggeringly expensive project, a Western,

but still, they have worked the budget down to around 250 and are trying

to work it down even farther, supposedly, or the plug is going to be permanently pulled.

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