The Townies: Hollywood’s Best and Worst of 2023

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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It’s podcasting's most exclusive event of the year: The second annual Townie Awards! This is a show made up of awards created by us, based on our own interpretations of the craziest year in Hollywood, maybe ever? In Part 1, Matt is joined by Lucas Shaw, the Amy Poehler to his Tina Fey, to give out the first round of awards, including Most Destructive Behind-the-Scenes Drama, Publicist Fail of the Year, Most Annoying Media Narrative, Deal of the Year, Larry David Spite Store of the Year, Sneaky Success of the Year, and much more. For a 20 percent discount on Matt’s Hollywood insider newsletter, ‘What I’m Hearing ...,’ click here. Email us your thoughts! thetown@spotify.com Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Lucas Shaw Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:05.0	Danny Kelly, along with Danny Hyfitz and Craig Horlebeck.
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0:17.1	It is Wednesday, December 27th.
0:20.2	We are live from the second worst table at the international ballroom of the Beverly Hills Hotel. It's the townies. Thanks Craig for the fancy music. You look great in your purple tuxedo. This is our year end award show episode. A two-parter. It's been an absolutely insane year in Hollywood.
0:39.8	Maybe the worst year ever. That's debatable. But the industry has been under attack on four
0:45.5	separate fronts this year. Economic, technological, social, and political, all at the same time.
0:53.7	The strikes obviously hit the economics pretty hard.
0:56.4	The disruption has gone way beyond those six months of work stoppage.
1:00.7	Add to that, the technological thread of AI, the fact that Marvel and DC superheroes largely
1:05.8	stopped working at the box office this year, though I think the demise of the genre is a bit
1:10.6	overstated. Disney, Warner, think the demise of the genre is a bit overstated.
1:12.1	Disney, Warner Discovery, and the rest of the studios are firing people as fast as they can,
1:17.4	canceling projects, selling shows to Netflix, which they said they weren't going to do.
1:22.7	And recently, Bob Iger basically declared that Disney content is too woke,
1:27.0	repeating a Ron DeSantis talking point,
1:29.3	which didn't think would happen at the beginning of this year.
1:31.8	We saw the end of Peak TV.
1:33.6	The studios basically throwing in the towel on the streaming wars.
1:37.1	Netflix recovering from the Great Correction to dominate the year with these suits phenomenon,
1:42.3	and now this pivot on data transparency.
1:45.8	Paramount, one of the legacy studios, became a zombie this year. It's alive, but kind of not.
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