Mike Schur

Do they get to keep Casey Bloys and all the folks at that company who have been responsible for some of your favorite shows and movies and miniseries and documentaries?

Or are they...

announced as redundant and shuffled off to Buffalo.

Like, there are people whose job it is to still, even in this era of AI and of predictive viewing and all that stuff, whose job it is to program places, to figure out what are the stories we want to tell that are good and how can we get them to people.

And those people are in danger, just like writers and actors and directors and crew members are.

Those people, the executives who program things, are in danger by mergers like this.

I'll raise it one more time as an example.

Hacks exists because Jen, Paul, and Chia had this idea, and they worked on it for five years.

And we went out and we pitched it everywhere.

We pitched it to Netflix, and we pitched it to Hulu, and we pitched it to HBO.

It was a tough sell because it was a show about...

a 70-year-old woman who lives in Las Vegas and who is a stand-up comedian who takes on a 25-year-old apprentice to write jokes for a stand-up routine.

It was not the kind of idea that AI would suggest had a big chance for success, right?

It's on land.

The whole show takes place on land.

Yeah, not a single underwater legal drama.

Dry as hell.

Dry as hell.

And the woman, there was a woman named Susanna Makos who worked at HBO Max who just got it.

A group of humans used their human mouths to communicate an idea for a TV show.