The Hollywood Year to Be

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2009

⏱️ 29 minutes

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2008 was a roller-coaster of a year for show business. What’s in store for the industry in 2009? It's the Hollywood year-to-be with Lauren Schuker of the Wall Street Journal and Scott Collins of the Los Angeles Times.

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0:00.0	From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.
0:06.8	You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want next time.
0:12.4	Everybody thinks his own business, really, really, all the white life.
0:18.2	He doesn't clean.
0:19.0	What's with him?
0:20.9	Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood.
0:24.2	2009 was a year of great change in show business, and 2010 will undoubtedly top it.
0:30.6	This week on the business, it's the Hollywood Year to Be, with Cynthia Littleton, a variety and John Horn of Los Angeles Times.
0:38.1	Stay close. It's the business from KCRW.
0:40.6	Yes, best of time.
0:43.3	Oh, oh, yeah.
0:46.0	Yeah.
0:46.3	I can imagine Hollywood, everything is really driven by making money.
0:54.8	What's with him?
0:56.3	No, I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood, Hollywood.
1:01.4	2009 was as topsy-turvy a year as anyone in Hollywood can remember.
1:06.9	And it seems 2010 might be even topsier and terrier.
1:11.5	Today we'll make our predictions of the big stories of the coming year.
1:15.4	Call it megabanter with our prognosticators,
1:18.6	Cynthia Littleton, the deputy editor of Variety,
1:21.1	and John Horn, who writes about Hollywood for the Los Angeles Times.
1:24.8	All right, we're going to gaze fearlessly into our crystal balls. We're going to talk about the year to come. And we're going to start with Comcast, because possibly because this is my obsession, but I actually think Comcast is the most likely, unless Disney decides to try and cut ahead in the line, to start rolling out video on demand in a way that is truly going to
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