Marina Hyde

They became proper bankable, you can open a movie, movie stars.

And so it's very, very odd to see people of that heft, I suppose, as in people who can get money for films, which somehow is still...

The benchmark, even though we might say that television has been much more successful or much more reliably successful in recent years.

But if you can get money and you can open a film, then you are still huge.

And to see all of those, particularly those three on the red carpet is odd now because it seems almost like it's top heavy.

Like how can all these people be on this show?

Because each one of those is now a lead in whatever they're in.

I'm not sure I think that.

I actually think, isn't it interesting that they could all be leading TV series, but maybe they want... Don't forget, TV is a massive commitment, as this more than anything shows.

I think it's the commitment that they are less interested in.

Are you really going to sign away potentially seven seasons of something, or however many years, rather than doing lots of high-profile, potentially great...

film projects and I think that's still why they it's interesting that none of these particularly have been doing TV series they've been all doing films because not just because it remains perhaps undeservedly the prestige thing but because actually you don't have to commit to seven years or whatever and wait around while someone goes and makes

the idol, you're much more master of your own destiny.

And I wouldn't want to imply that, by the way, they weren't, because I think Casey Bloys, who's the CEO of HBO, stood up and said, you know, thank you all for being here.

And I've just been shouted at so many times over the last few years by your agents and managers and public, you know, because getting to just try and get the schedule to make it happen.

But I think that's why.

Do you really want to commit to something that lasts for years and years and years?

Or do you want to get in and out in...

I also wonder whether it will explode because it will get masses of traction.

But I wonder whether people will think, oh gosh, that was such a sort of COVID era, you know, that sort of thing.