‘The Watch’ Mailbag: Late Night After Trump, the Ongoing Streaming Services Battle, and What Makes a Successful TV Show

The Watch

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🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Chris and Andy open up the mailbag to talk about what late-night TV and TV in general will look like now that Trump is gone (3:13), the ever-growing streaming landscape (24:59), what successful TV shows look like in 2021 (33:42), and the movie ‘Promising Young Woman’ (43:43). Hosts: Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I need support staff to clear the room.
0:04.1	Stand up and walk now!
0:06.3	Hello and welcome to The Watch!
0:08.2	My name is Chris Ryan, I'm an editor at TheRinger.com and joining me on the other line,
0:12.7	the former youth poet, Lauren, it's Andy Greenwald!
0:16.3	It's very tenon bouncy, isn't it?
0:19.0	You came in second, but this one man, you just came in short.
0:24.4	It's a shame, but I appreciate you getting my name out there.
0:26.8	Andy, today we're going to be talking about a lot of stuff we solicited some questions
0:29.8	from listeners and are going to mix it in to our usual conversation about television
0:34.7	and pop culture.
0:35.7	We'll be discussing the new film from Emerald Fennel, who you might have known from the
0:40.6	Crown, or from Killing Eve.
0:42.0	She directed a movie called Promising a Woman.
0:43.7	We're also going to talk a little bit about some of the inauguration TV that was on
0:47.3	yesterday and answer a bunch of listener questions.
0:49.7	I'm sure we'll be talking a little bit about WandaVision and MCU in addition.
0:53.7	Let's get into the show.
1:00.1	What's up brother?
1:01.4	Happy day, happy America everybody.
1:03.4	Yeah, so did you spend a lot of time yesterday watching the inauguration?
1:07.8	I did, and not just the inauguration, but I spent a lot of the day watching just the New
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