Kim Masters
Host at The Business (Podcast)
Hollywood Correspondent at Puck
Puck partner. Host of @KCRW’s The Business. Not a fan of this site or its owner. @kimmasters.bsky.social
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2 weeks ago |
kcrw.com | Kim Masters
CBS News president Wendy McMahon has stepped down from her post as tensions escalate over ongoing Paramount Global-Trump settlement talks. With the deal already under scrutiny from senators, what's in store for Shari Redstone's Skydance merger? Kim Masters and Matt Belloni dive into this and more major media shake-up stories. Plus, Masters talks to director Matt Wolf about Pee-wee as Himself, which looks beyond the iconic character to the complicated man who created him.
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2 weeks ago |
kcrw.com | Kim Masters
"The appeasement continues unabated," Matt Belloni observes. By appeasement, Belloni is referring to recent moves by several media organizations to get into the good graces of the current U.S. presidential administration: Bob Iger's recent White House visit to unveil plans for Disney Abu Dhabi, Richard Grennell's controversial appointment to Live Nation's Board of Directors, and seemingly everything that Shari Redstone is doing behind the scenes to ensure a successful Paramount-Skydance merger.
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2 weeks ago |
kcrw.com | Kim Masters
The late actor Paul Reubens sat for more than 40 hours of interviews with documentarian Matt Wolf, whose two-part series Pee-wee as Himself is now showing on HBO. As viewers can see, getting at the man behind the beloved character was not always a walk in the park:"Some conflicts between us were genuinely interpersonal," says Wolf.
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3 weeks ago |
kcrw.com | Kim Masters |Eric Deggans
Ramy Youssef won a Golden Globe and a Peabody for creating and starring in the Hulu series Ramy, a show about the American Muslim experience in the wake of 9/11. Now, the comedian and actor lends his creativity (and his voice) to the new Amazon Prime Video animated series #1 Happy Family USA. The new show centers many of the same poignant topics as Youssef's acclaimed live action work. Youssef voices the characters of Hussein Hussein, an Egyptian-American husband, and Rumi, his son.
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3 weeks ago |
kcrw.com | Kim Masters |Eric Deggans
Warner Bros. Discovery has renamed its streaming service once again. Beginning in the summer of 2025, "Max" will be "HBO Max" again. The company dropped "HBO" from its name in 2023, a move which was widely recognized as the company's attempt to become more competitive with a company like Netflix in its programming variety. The name change signals a renewed focus on the associations between HBO and a certain caliber of TV. What's next for WBD and the streaming landscape writ large?
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