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Send us Fan Mail Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back — and this week they pull Philly sports legend Glen MacNow into the chair for an episode built on a genuinely scary idea: the shows and movies you love can just… disappear. They lead with the number Netflix would rather bury: its biggest hits are hemorrhaging 30 to 70 percent of their audience by season two. Beef won a pile of Emmys and then lost 70%...

Send us Fan Mail Rhea and Angelo discuss the triumphant return of The Bear, the not-so-triumphant return of Larry David and the weird generosity these days of TV and movie critics.  We have new TV recommendations, too. Plus lots of other fun stuff.

Send us Fan Mail Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back to discuss Steven Spielberg falling off a cliff. Disclosure Day scored a huge opening weekend — $44 million domestic, $92.8 million worldwide, bigger than E.T., Saving Private Ryan, or The Fabelmans — and then dropped a staggering 62% in weekend two, landing a soft B CinemaScore on a $115 million budget that now needs to claw its way toward $300 mill...

Send us Fan Mail Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back to discuss Byron Allen's DISASTROUS start at CBS.  Viewership cratered 77%, from Colbert's 2.69 million average all the way down to 628,000. And the damage isn't staying in late night. People fall asleep with the TV on and wake up on the same channel. Colbert was feeding CBS local news. CBS local news was feeding CBS This Morning. Byro...

Send us Fan Mail Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back and this week Hugh Laurie said the quiet part out loud, and the internet still hasn't recovered. After a freelance critic named Janet Murray posted on X that House has "the same narrative every episode," Laurie responded with a thread so sarcastic it went viral — cataloguing every alternative structure they tried, comparing the formula...

Send us Fan Mail Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back — and this week there are three numbers that have shaken Hollywood to its core: $81 million, $100 million, and $52 million. That's what three YouTube kids just grossed at the box office... a 20-year-old with Backrooms , a 26-year-old who turned $750K into Obsession 's biggest second-weekend spike in modern box office history, and Markiplier...

Send us Fan Mail Angelo, Rhea, and Jay — and they're leading with a question nobody in late night wants to answer: what happens when you spend your final week trying to "kill it" instead of doing what made the show great? Stephen Colbert's finale gave Billy Crystal, Ben Stiller, and Robert De Niro thirty seconds each, closed with green screen gimmicks, and ended with an 83-year...

Send us Fan Mail Angelo, Rhea and Jay are BACK together to discuss The Crash , which follows Mackenzie Shrilla, convicted of murder after driving 100 mph into a wall and killing her boyfriend and his friend. And when cameras caught her father on film basically blessing his teenager's drug use, the internet — and Angelo — had thoughts. Are the parents victims of an unfair documentary, or are t...

Send us Fan Mail Jay Black and Rhea Hughes are back — and filling in for Angelo today is Philadelphia sports media legend Glen Macnow — and they're leading with a number that should terrify every executive at Disney: The Mandalorian and Grogu is tracking at $80 million for its May 22 opening, which would make it the lowest-grossing Star Wars debut in franchise history (below Solo , the movie...

Send us Fan Mail Jay, Rhea, and Angelo are back... and Hollywood just got a lesson from its own past. Devil Wears Prada 2 opened to $77 million domestic and $233 million worldwide, proving that 125 million Americans over 50 — mostly women — will absolutely show up if you give them something worth watching. The question is whether the movie actually delivered: Angelo thinks Meryl Streep is chewing...

Send us Fan Mail Jay and Rhea welcome Philadelphia Inquirer sports columnist and author Mike Sielski to the show — and they're leading with a number that should terrify every sports league in America: Peacock lost $432 million in a single quarter, with cumulative losses now north of $11 billion since 2020. The gang breaks down the real culprit: younger audiences don't watch sports the wa...

Send us Fan Mail Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back, and this week the conversation starts with a question nobody in Hollywood wants to answer: what happens to late night when the networks just... give up? Byron Allen didn't pitch a show to CBS. He BOUGHT the time slot. The gang breaks down what it means when a broadcast network stops programming and starts renting, Angelo predicts every late nig...

Send us Fan Mail Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back — and this week someone finally said the quiet part loud. Sony chairman Tom Rothman walked into CinemaCon, stood in front of a room full of theater owners, and told them to their faces that THEY are the reason people aren't going to the movies. His three-word fix: longer windows, shorter pre-shows, cheaper tickets. The gang breaks down which dem...

Send us Fan Mail Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back to discuss Bill Lawrence, creator of Shrinking , going online to say that the main storyline of the first three seasons is over, but that the show is continuing for a fourth season with a new storyline.  While refreshing that a show knows when to end a story after it's run its course (we're looking at you The Bear !), wouldn't this be...

Send us Fan Mail Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back to discuss the brand new SNL from the UK and how it's (so far) surpassing what we're doing in America.  Jay offers a theory as to why that might be (and why the superiority might not last much longer!) THEN, Angelo is trying to find Project Hail Mary on a movie theater screen, but Super Mario Bros Galaxy is eating up all the screens!  Holly...

Send us Fan Mail Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back to talk about the disaster at ABC as an entire season of  The Bachelorette has been scrapped because someone didn't do their homework and decided to let a known abuser be the star of the show.  TMZ got the video of Taylor Frankie Paul exploding, and now $30 million of the network's money has imploded.  THEN: after the success of  Project Ha...

Send us Fan Mail Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back to discuss the Oscars, something that only Jay seems really excited about (because he loved One Battle After Another ).  Is the problem the movies themselves?  The selections by the academy?  Or something more fundamental: are movies just no longer the center of the pop culture universe anymore?  Then, Reggie Dinkins has become the breakout hit of th...

Send us Fan Mail Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back to discuss Rooster , the new show by unstoppable king of TV, Bill Lawrence, starring Steve Carell.  They've all seen it, so it gets the rare triple review.  But the big question is whether or not this is yet another disappointment in the post- Office career of Mr. Carell, or a rare bright spot. THEN: The Amazing Race is getting sued by last year...

Send us Fan Mail This was ALMOST an emergency pod: Angelo, Rhea, and Jay discuss the implications of the huge mega-merger of Paramount/Skydance and Warner Bros/Discovery, a union that will leave the new entity with EIGHTY BILLION WITH A B dollars in debt.  Can it survive?  Should it survive?  And what does it mean for all our favorite shows? THEN,  Scrubs is back, and it's good, actually.  Th...

Send us Fan Mail Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back to discuss the complete debacle of the BAFTAs, where a man with Tourette’s Syndrome screamed a slur during Michael B. Jordan’s time on stage and the powers that be DID NOT edit it out for broadcast. What could possibly be their thinking in this disastrous decision?  The gang is baffled but do their best to get to the bottom of it. THEN Jon Stewart’s...

Send us Fan Mail Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back to discuss Rose Byrne's phenomenal performance in the otherwise pretty terrible  If I Had Legs I Would Kick You , and discuss the long legacy of great actors giving great performances in lousy movies. THEN, Bill Lawrence has a new show coming out called  Rooster , and the internet seems divided between excitement for a new show from the creator...

Send us Fan Mail Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back to discuss the biggest controversy in TV this week: which Super Bowl halftime show to watch.  Now that everything is political, what singers we enjoy with our nachos has to be political too.  The gang discusses which performance was better and where the halftime show should go from here. THEN: Piracy is back , with sales of the "superbox",...

Send us Fan Mail Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back to discuss the NFL's dominating ratings through the regular season and the playoffs...right up to the Conference Championships, which were down around 7%.  Will the lack of a big market team mean the ratings slide will continue or was it a momentary drop due to the bad weather last week?   THEN, the gang talks about Markiplier's Iron Lung ,...

Send us Fan Mail Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back to discuss the brand new Star Trek show, Starfleet Academy, and only one of them is really happy about it (hint: he's a huge nerd!). Is Academy the "Nu Trek" show worthy of the title of the new TNG? THEN, the gang discusses Jimmy Kimmel's unprecedented shift from comedy to politics, something that late night has never really seen...

Send us Fan Mail Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back to discuss the hottest new show on TV:  Heated Rivalry and the bump in ratings that the NHL is seeing because of it.  Would a popular show about a sport make you interested in seeing that sport? THEN, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck went on Joe Rogan's podcast... and it was good!?  How did  that happen?  The gang discusses just how well the lifelong...