The larger impact of coronavirus on the TV industry, what to watch while quarantined and an interview with the ‘Little Fires Everywhere’ boss

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The Hollywood Reporter

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4.6 • 527 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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The five topics that Lesley and Dan cover in quarantine this week are: The impact of coronavirus on the TV landscape (2:13) How late-night hosts are coping (14:39) How coronavirus is impacting streamers (20:15) Showrunner Spotlight: Liz Tigelaar ("Little Fires Everywhere") (32:49) Critics Corner (1:08:56) Welcome to the TV's Top 5! On this podcast, The Hollywood Reporter's own Lesley Goldberg, West Coast TV Editor, and Daniel Fienberg, Chief Television Critic, will be talking all things TV. Each episode will be broken into five segments that will be sure to deliver real-time television news, a critical look at current and upcoming shows, as well as regular analysis of programs on TV and much more. Stay tuned for future episodes and be sure to subscribe! Hosted by: Lesley Goldberg and Daniel Fienberg Produced by: Matthew Whitehurst and Joshua Farnham Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jamie Lang and Sophie Haboo have arrived on Disney Plus.
0:04.5	We're having a baby.
0:05.5	We're having a baby.
0:07.2	I've always wanted to be mom.
0:09.4	And we're bringing you on our journey through everything.
0:12.4	I have no idea what we're doing.
0:13.6	Thank you. I have more of an idea.
0:15.6	I think of it like a Tamagocchi.
0:17.8	At the end of all of this...
0:20.0	We're going to have a little baby. Raising Chelsea,
0:22.7	a Hulu original series streaming April 2nd exclusively on Disney Plus. 18 plus subscription required
0:28.7	T's and T supply. I'll now hand you over to my best man, Eddie. Wow, wow, wow. Second time's a charm,
0:37.4	a Billy boy. Oh God. Substitution, courtesy of Paddy Power, embarrassing Eddie, makes way for sensible Samuel. Cool, that was close. You might not always pick the right starter, but your sub can still deliver. Because with Paddy's super sub, your bet rolls over to the player coming on. Paddy Power. Valid on selected leagues and markets only. Pre-match and in-play bets on qualifying player outcome selections only. Tis and Clusions apply. 18 plus scumannaware.com. Welcome back to TV's top five, the Hollywood Reporter's TV podcast. I'm Leslie Goldberg, West Coast TV editor, and I'm joined today via Google Hangout by my fearless co-host and our chief TV critic, Mr. Daniel Feinberg.
1:12.6	Dan, how you holding up?
1:14.0	Oh, just making my way the only way I know how, Leslie.
1:17.0	How about you?
1:18.1	We are about a week into our work from home scenario.
1:22.8	I'm on season two of 30 Rock, which I have admittedly never seen before.
1:30.2	And yeah, I'm a little sore crazy. I'm ready to go outside. I'm ready to like do something that involves culture,
1:34.4	but you can't do that because everything shut down. We are definitely living in unusual times,
1:39.8	and we are practicing our social distancing even on this podcast. So hopefully you won't notice the audio difference, but if you do, you have the explanation for what up.
1:49.7	Yeah. And, you know, because so much of the town is shut down and this global pandemic is affecting everything, every facet of the industry, every facet of our world as we know it. This episode will be a little
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