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'The L Word' Showrunner on Advancing Queer Storytelling

I'm Having an Episode

The Hollywood Reporter

Tv Reviews, Entertainment News, News, Tv & Film

4.6527 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

This Weeks Top 5 Topics: Three struggling franchises (4:17) Mailbag! (13:12) South Park creators ink deal (33:35) Showrunnner Spotlight: Marja-Lewis Ryan ('The L Word: Generation Q') (41:17) Critics Corner (1:13:51) Welcome to TV's Top 5! Each episode features The Hollywood Reporter's West Coast TV Editor Lesley Goldberg and Chief TV Critic Daniel Fienberg breaking down the latest industry headlines. The podcast is broken into five segments, offering a deep-dive analysis of the latest TV news and a critical look at current and upcoming shows. Every episode of the weekly podcast includes an in-depth interview with one of the industry's most powerful showrunners or an up-and-coming new voice. Have an industry question you’d like to hear us address in a Mailbag segment? Email us at TVsTop5@THR.com. Stay tuned for future episodes and be sure to subscribe. Hosted by: Lesley Goldberg and Daniel Fienberg Produced by: Matthew Whitehurst Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:20.0

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0:39.1

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0:43.4

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0:46.6

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0:49.8

Welcome to episode 131 of TV's top five, the Hollywood Reporter's TV podcast.

0:55.5

I'm Leslie Goldberg, West Coast TV editor, and I'm joined by my friend, co-host, and

0:59.8

THR's chief TV critic, Dan Feinberg.

1:02.5

Hi, Dan.

1:03.4

How you doing, Leslie?

1:04.5

You sound a little bit like you might have just spent a night yelling at Houston Astros baseball

1:10.1

players and possibly throwing garbage cans onto the

1:13.1

field at Dodgers Stadium. Did you have fun? I did indeed boo very aggressively when El Tivay

1:22.5

and Springer were up there. Yeah. And I did scream very enthusiastically when Max Scher got his 10th strikeout and his Dodger debut. So yeah, I do sound raspy, but it was worth every strain on my vocal cords. So you'll have to forgive me for sounding like a crazy Dodger fan because, yeah, that's me.

1:40.5

Yeah, uh-huh, because our listeners are unaware of that side of you.

1:45.5

Fair.

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