The WGA’s Surprise Deal With the Studios, Bad Robot Downsizes, and the State of International Crime Thrillers on TV

The Watch

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.5 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Chris and Andy talk about the tentative four-year deal that the WGA reached with the studios (5:42) and the news that J.J. Abrams’s production company, Bad Robot, is downsizing (12:49). Then they react to the ‘Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed’ trailer (29:09) before discussing a pair of international crime thrillers, HBO’s ‘Privilèges’ (32:19) and Netflix’s ‘Unfamiliar’ (44:16). Later, The Watch: After Dark (01:00:00). Subscribe to the Ringer TV YouTube channel here for full episodes of The Watch and so much more! Hosts: Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald Producers: Kaya McMullen and Kai Grady Additional Video Supervision: Sarah Reddy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I ain't sports to have to clear the room.
0:07.0	Stand up and walk now.
0:11.0	Hello and welcome to The Watch.
0:13.0	My name is Chris Ryan. I am an editor at the ringer.com and joining me in the studio, he has risen.
0:20.0	It's Andy Greenwald. That's a reference to another charismatic Jewish guy with questionable hair. What's wrong with your hair? I don't know. I get a lot of comments. From who? From your fans. What? You see our heads. They talk about your hair? Yeah. Oh. Well, I'm sorry. That's okay. Next time we have a meeting, I'll talk about it.
0:39.1	Just listen.
0:39.8	Control your people.
0:40.8	That's all I'm saying.
0:41.8	Great to see you, bud. Great to see you. We have a lot to talk about. Yeah, we missed you on Thursday. Joe was very nice to come by. We did a primetime programming grid. We talked about something very bad is going to happen.
0:51.6	We talked a little bit about the pit news that I was going to see if you wanted to comment on.
0:56.2	I do.
0:57.2	I'm worried I missed the... about something very bad is going to happen. We talked a little bit about the pit news that I was going to see if you wanted to comment on.
0:56.4	I do.
0:57.1	I'm worried I missed the night shift discourse, too.
0:59.4	I feel like that went over big.
1:01.3	It did.
1:02.0	And it's just growing, although I do feel like the internet is now just like scraping the most
1:10.0	casually tossed off. Like, like sure that would be cool like
1:13.7	Sean Hadassie quotes yeah to be like night shift is in development and the Russo brothers will
1:19.6	abandon doomsday to make it yes that's right so yeah like we said oh by way today on the pod you can
1:26.5	first of all you do it do to do three resets here.
1:29.7	First of all, you can reach us at the watch at Spotify.com, and you can follow us on Instagram at the watchpod underscore, and you can watch us on YouTube at Ringer-Dash TV, and you can watch us on Spotify, where I think you're probably listening to us, but you can find us on lots of different podcast platforms.
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