What Do Showrunners Do After Their Great Show Ends? Plus, ‘Sirens’ and ‘Adults.’

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Tv & Film

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🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Chris and Andy talk about the finale of ‘Everybody’s Live’ (8:06) and a couple of recent releases, including ‘Sirens’ (14:29) and ‘Adults’ (23:59). Then, ahead of the premiere of Jesse Armstrong’s first post-‘Succession’ project, ‘Mountainhead,’ they talk about what the careers of other great showrunners like Matthew Weiner and Michael Schur have looked like after their most famous shows ended (34:14). Hosts: Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald Producer: Kaya McMullen Video Production and Editing: Jon Jones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.8	I need sports to have to clear the room.
0:33.7	Stand up and walk now.
0:36.5	Hello and welcome to The Watch.
0:38.3	My name is Chris Ryan.
0:39.3	I am an editor at the ringer.com and joining me in the studio, he just fought three 14-year-old boys.
0:48.3	It's Andy Greenwald.
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0:53.3	Thank you. In a good way, in a way that feels like you triumphed. Or that I tried like it. You look like it. Thank you. In a way, in a way that feels like you triumphed.
0:56.6	Or that I tried.
0:57.4	Yeah.
0:58.0	Greenwald, today on the pod, a good one.
1:00.0	We are going to be talking about Sirens.
1:02.7	The first couple episodes of that new-ish Netflix show came out last week.
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