The Hollywood Jealousy Draft: What Each Studio Would Steal From Its Rivals

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to conduct this first ever Hollywood Jealousy Draft, where each of the five major entertainment companies (Disney, Comcast, WarnerMount, Netflix, and Amazon) can steal any asset from any of their competitors for free. Matt and Lucas cosplay as all-powerful CEOs and make their selections for what they believe are the most valuable assets in Hollywood (00:06). Matt finishes the show with a prediction about the final episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (29:40). Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Lucas Shaw Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Matt Pevic Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Industry voters visit Starz FYC.com. Sarah Snook stars in Peacock’s ALL HER FAULT. Streaming on Peacock. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of The Town is brought to you by Stars' Outlander.
0:08.5	Everything has led to this.
0:10.3	The final chapter of the time-traveling drama and cultural phenomenon starring Sam Hewain
0:15.0	and Catriona Balfe is only on Stars.
0:18.2	Vogue declares Outlander one of television's greatest love stories,
0:21.7	and the rap raves, Balf and Hewain, have perfected this on-screen relationship.
0:26.3	Industry voters can access all episodes at StarsFYC.com.
0:31.8	It is Monday, May 18. There's no such thing as a fully well-rounded entertainment company.
0:37.9	Even the biggest and most successful have strengths and glaring weaknesses.
0:42.1	Netflix is the dominant subscription streaming service, but it has no theme park business,
0:46.8	no comic book franchises, very little sports rights.
0:50.0	Disney has all of those, but a user interface on its streaming service that could be way better, and so forth.
0:56.3	Hence the Hollywood Jealousy Draft.
0:58.7	That's today's show.
0:59.7	Lucas Shaw is here, and we're going to play a game.
1:01.7	We're going to go through each major entertainment company and let them poach one thing from arrival,
1:07.4	the one thing they need the most, and that they don't currently have. What would that be for
1:12.3	Netflix? For Disney? You just take it. No cost, no regulatory issues, no blowback, just snap your
1:19.3	fingers, and it's yours. Today is the Hollywood jealousy draft. From The Ringer and Puck,
1:24.1	I'm Matt Bellany and and this is the town.
1:32.9	Okay, we are here with Lucas Shaw from Bloomberg.
1:34.1	Welcome back.
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