From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want next time.

Everybody takes your business, business, Willie, Willie, all white life, he doesn't clean, please.

Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood.

This week on the business, television writer-producer Sean Ryan.

With The Shield, he helped make basic cable a go-to place for sophisticated original scripted programming.

With his new Fox series, The Chicago Code, he hopes to bring his brand of

storytelling to an even broader audience. But first, it's the Hollywood news banter. Stick around.

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You can imagine Hollywood everything is really driven by making money.

What's with him? Oh, I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood, everything is really driven by making money. What's with him?

Oh, I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood.

I'm joined by my fellow banterer, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times.

Hello, John.

Hello, Kim.

So the Oscar race took a bit of a turn about a week ago when the Directors Guild and Screen Actors Guild both recognized

the King's Speech, put it in the front of the pack. I have noticed a little bit of the

advent of the backlash, the negative campaign, the complaints about the King's speech's

accuracy. It always happens around now, right? It happened right at this point a year ago

with a hurt locker. It happened with a beautiful

mind. It happened with hurricane. I mean, as movies tend to go up in popularity and start winning

awards, the snipers come out and they start taking more open shots at the leading films.

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