The Strike’s Permanent Damage: Who Will Suffer the Most?

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to discuss the long-term impact of the strike and who or what will suffer the most after it’s over. They talk about how peak TV, late-night talk shows, Bob Iger, Drew Barrymore, streaming content, and overall deals will fare in the aftermath of the strike. Matt finishes the show by giving a prediction about ‘Yellowstone’ re-airing on CBS. 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 Belloni Guest: Lucas Shaw Producer: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	For all your fantasy football needs, check out the Ringer Fantasy Football Show with me, Danny
0:05.2	Hifetz and Craig Horrellbeck.
0:07.9	That's the Ringer Fantasy Football Show on Spotify or wherever you get your podcast.
0:14.3	It is Monday, September 18th.
0:17.7	We've talked a lot on the show about the strikes.
0:20.0	Writers are now close to hitting 153 days to make this the longest labor stoppage for one of the big three unions in the history of Hollywood.
0:27.6	The actors are now in their third month of the walkout.
0:30.8	Some new talks are scheduled this week with the writers and studios.
0:33.6	We'll see how that goes.
0:34.8	But even with a quick resolution at this point, we're looking at the end of the year
0:38.5	to restart production.
0:40.1	That would be a full eight months of inactivity.
0:42.9	Big summer movies sitting unfinished.
0:44.9	No late night TV shows.
0:46.2	No returning or new scripted shows.
0:48.0	And now, not a lot of daytime TV either.
0:50.9	Shout out to Drew Barrymore and her hostage videos on Instagram.
0:55.9	The strikes will end at some point, but it all raises the question, what's the permanent damage here? The California economy has
1:01.3	already taken a $3 billion hit, and that was as of August. Shout out to Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass,
1:07.0	the L.A. mayor, for doing exactly nothing to resolve this fight. But I'm talking after the
1:12.5	strikes. After all, in 2008, as most people know, the strike ushered in the era of reality TV,
1:18.1	thanks in part to the experimentation that happened out of necessity. It also accelerated the purge
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