Paramount Settles States’ Antitrust Lawsuit. Plus, ‘Lanterns’ Episode 6.
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What are the details of Paramount’s settlement with the state attorneys general?
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Hello and welcome to The Watch. My name is Chris Ryan. I am an editor at theRinger.com and joining me in the studio, first in line for one of Jon Stewart's panic rooms, it's Andy Greenwald! I
thought we were calling them not, what is it? Not necessarily panic room. Whatever it is,
that's where you watch the.
I'll tell you something. Every room I walk into is a panic room.
You seem stable. You seem great. You seem even, Keel. Uh it was um a a beautiful weekend here in Los Angeles. Weather was nice. The weather was nice. Uh it's a Monday here. We're gonna talk about lanterns. We're gonna talk about the settlement between Paramount and the estate's attorney generals who had sued them.
Is it too late to get like barrister wigs as a prop for when we do legal talk? Is that is that something we have in your It would
probably be the most expertise we brought to the procedure if you were just like
we need to d distinguish somehow that we are not qualified.
We got some other uh news and notes at the top. Uh the watch at spotify.com, the watch pod underscore at Instagram. You can watch us on YouTube at Ringer Dash TV with the Ringer T prestige TV podcast. They're covering slow horses these days. Yeah, you can listen to us on Spotify where you can watch us. You can listen to us on all sorts of podcast platforms.
Mm-hmm.
Um, National Public Radio. Can you listen to us there? No. But I I always have a dream of of Just doing away with this whole persona that I've built up and just being like I'm with Andy Greenwald. Uh, we're gonna talk about episode six of lanterns. Have
you ever listened to my solo podcast? Uh no, honestly. No, but that's kind of my brand. No,
I've I've listened to your work. It's I think it's wonderful. You're familiar. Yeah. Which which part do you like best? Uh, how are you doing, bud? Donnie Candles, the Eagles, Victorious? Where do you want to start with real real life? No, no. I
think we should do that after dark. Okay, after dark.
Let's talk about the biggest news in Hollywood, which is I had a whole a-block dedicated to the various leaks that have been coming out over the last four days. Uh, David Ellison uh taking out the tape measurer and sizing up some office space in Tennessee. Uh, the subsequent hysteria that came out after it was announced that Paramount was starting to look at moving to Nashville in earnest. Um, then there were discussions over the weekend, leaks over the weekend about how negotiations were ongoing between a group of states attorney generals led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta.
Mm-hmm.
with uh Paramount over the merger of Paramount and Warner Brothers. There was discussions about um penalties that would uh be incurred if they didn't release thirty movies a year. All sorts of all sorts of business was getting out into the streets. As we were driving in today, yep, it was announced that uh a settlement is nigh. If not already official or I think it will be made official today. So we'll operate as if it's gonna happen and And hopefully
Yeah, I just wanna say how heroic you are. This is not unlike Jeff Daniels in season one of the newsroom when he had an A-block planned and then we got Osama bin Laden and he just bravely crossed out everything.
It would be if if Jeff Daniels, who played Will McAvoy Damn, wow, what a what a pull. Yeah, and I'm sure he and Don were kind of in a corner being like, how should we approach this A-block? And I bet that A block would have been, when are we gonna get Osama bin Laden? And then it was, we got him. So in that case, my A block was just what's up with this merger?
No, I think honestly, then it's like, when are we gonna get Osama bin Laden? And then the A-block becomes US bin Laden reach super cool truce.
Yeah. I wanna ask you about this on a couple of different levels. Sure. Let's start. In a place of uh Personal professional interest in the matter. Well I wanted to ask you more than like as a industry watcher or a podcaster about television, but as somebody who works within it and um kinda has one foot in and one foot out, you know?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the details of Paramount’s settlement with the state attorneys general?
0:05–10:51
2
How does the Paramount‑Warner Bros. Discovery merger affect the TV landscape?
10:51–19:27
3
Why did HBO win the bidding war for the new Javier Bardem drama series?
19:27–29:25
4
What are the main plot points and twists in Lanterns Episode 6?
29:25–38:12
5
How do the character arcs in Lanterns reflect themes of power and redemption?
38:12–47:10
6
What commentary do the hosts give on wealth, billionaires, and TV storytelling?
47:10–56:47
7
What is the ‘After Dark’ segment and why is it relevant to the episode?
56:47–59:24
8
What are the key take‑aways and preview for the next episode?
59:24–1:00:31
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