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The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Future of HBO (and Max?). Part 2 With CEO Casey Bloys.

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3847 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Matt is back for Part 2 of his conversation with Casey Bloys to discuss what HBO and Max are looking for going forward, how he deals with competition, why he has stayed at HBO for over 20 years, the TV show he is most jealous of, what he would do as king of Hollywood for a day, and more (01:08). 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 BelloniGuest: Casey Bloys Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie LopezTheme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up, everyone? I'm Nora Prynciotti. And I'm Nathan Hubbard. And we're coming in like a

0:05.2

wrecking ball to announce a brand new series. That's right. It's every single album, Miley Cyrus.

0:10.9

Deep dive with us into the career of one of our most creative and confounding pop stars.

0:16.4

We're starting, of course, with the best of Hannah Montana. And ending with her brand new album, Something Beautiful, in June.

0:23.1

And don't forget about Miley Cyrus and her dead pets.

0:26.1

We certainly will not be doing that.

0:27.8

So listen now on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:34.1

Okay, here we are.

0:35.4

Still April 30th.

0:36.5

Still chatting with Casey Blois, head of HBO and Max.

0:39.3

If you haven't listened to Part 1 of our talk, I recommend you do that in this podcast feed.

0:44.3

Then come back for part two.

0:46.3

We're talking about the engagement problem on Max, the Harry Potter show in development,

0:51.3

the profitability question, the Warner Brothers drama, and back by popular demand.

0:56.4

It's the lightning round.

0:58.3

So here is part two of Casey Blois.

1:01.0

From the ringer and puck, I'm Matt Bellany, and this is the town.

1:09.0

Engagement.

1:10.0

That is the kind of name of the game these days, especially since all the services,

1:14.7

including your own, are now advertising platforms. Your engagement is much lower than some of the

1:22.2

rivals, about 1.5% of connected TV viewing, according to the latest Nielsen.

1:28.4

The little asterisk to that, that doesn't capture our viewing on Amazon channels.

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