Stuck In Development

Netflix finally announced the introduction of a cheaper, ad-supported plan a couple of weeks ago. Now what? In this week's episode, Eitan and Carl explore everything involved in Netflix's decision and the biggest considerations it faces. They start by giving a quick introduction to programmatic advertising, before jumping into the reasons why it should be a great player, if not THE player in the a...

Carl & Eitan talk baseball (Eitan’s favorite sports topic) and sports media rights (Carl’s favorite sports topic) as they walk through the pricing strategy of NESN’s new DTC offering for Red Sox fans. In news this week, they debate the effect of Lightyear ’s dismal box office performance on the future of Pixar’s placement in the Disney portfolio, and they take a look at announced streaming inv...

Driven by a schedule-constrain creative rush, Carl and Eitan introduce a new episode type: The Mystery Topic! From time to time, especially during weeks when time is short, one of the boys will prepare a topic to get the other's live reaction.  For this first one, Eitan runs Carl through some viewership numbers that compare two major streaming releases. Curious about Carl's reaction? Listen t...

Carl, Eitan and guest Ariela Rudy Zaltzman feel the need – the need for watching Tom Cruise fly at high speed! Before dissecting the critical and box office success of Top Gun: Maverick , they check in with a slate of new releases including Disney’s Obi-wan Kenobi and Bo Burnham’s Inside outtakes. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @stuckindevpod

After a month long hiatus, we are back! Life got in our way, but we are very excited to jump right back into things. After a quick side trip into a month-worth of WAWWs where Eitan shares an inexplicable newfound love for watching cartoon musicals during flights, we dive into the man, nay the legend, of the hour: Tom Cruise. While this episode was recorded before we watched Top Gun: Maverick, we u...

For years, Carl and Eitan have been fighting an uphill credibility battle. In their professional circles, they’ve been the town loons proffering doomsday prophecies about Netflix’s business model. Unfortunately, the boys were right. Now that almost every Hollywood studio has reorganized around streaming and pumped billions of dollars into fleeting and brand-diluting original content, Netflix has r...

After a 1-episode run where the boys recorded together from the same location, Carl and Eitan are back on different sides of the country. Even with the geographical distance, they were both able to catch Everything Everywhere All at Once in theaters and they have thoughts. Same thoughts? You'll have to listen to find out! In the news, they check in with the finally-closed Warner Brothers Discovery...

After over a hundred hours of recording, Eitan & Carl finally found a chance to record together in person! They chat about Elon’s massive Twitter investment, grade Disney’s ultimate response to Florida’s abhorrent “Don’t Say Gay” law, and – of course – perform an autopsy on the bloated corpse of The Slap Oscars. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @stuckindevpod

This week, Carl, Eitan & guest Kevin Sachs recorded themselves reacting live to the Oscars devolving into chaos.

Ah, the week before the Oscars. Could CODA really pull an offset? Do "for your consideration" campaigns actually help the chances of any movies to get an award? Is earnestness truly out in Hollywood? Carl and Eitan dig into all these questions. On non-Oscar news, they check in on the latest Disney corporate gossip before moving on to this week's 'main' topic, Netflix's incoming crack down on passw...

Carl's in a poor mood this week as he and Eitan catch up on Disney's newest astral and terrestrial developments. 

In this special episode, Carl and Eitan are joined by Roman Milan from the All Sequels Go To Heaven podcast to talk wrestling and all the aspects that make it a unique form of entertainment in the current over-caffeinated world of content. Roman walks the boys through US wrestling's history, from its roots as a purely regional business, the emergence of WWE, the evolution of its business models, a...

Another week, another new term that Carl & Eitan can use to describe a very specific early-2020s media business trend. After a bizarre format experiment, the two spend this week clearing out their news inboxes. They start off with a requisite chat about the Oscars before chatting about the Uncharted box office and Skydance Animation’s successful coup to steal Brad Bird from Disney. Follow us o...

In this strangely produced and edited episode, the boys follow the old adage of "when life gives you lemons (lemons being one co-host's travel plans being impacted by a snowstorm), record 6 individual sections and edit them together to come up with a surprisingly coherent and effective episode." In terms of topics, the boys explore ViacomCBS's new/old name, MoviePass' creepy potential comeback, th...

It will come as no surprise to listeners of Stuck in Development that Carl and Eitan have takes on the new crop of Oscar noms. Overall, there were few surprises, but the two still found plenty to celebrate and lament. In news, Carl takes the lead on 2022 predictions in the aftermath of Meta’s stock downturn. The hosts also discuss a new lawsuit between Village Roadshow and Warner Bros. that threat...

With "2021 month" in the rearview, Eitan and Carl transition to looking into the future by going through the movies they most look forward to in 2022. The boys go through their top 5, their honorable mentions, and the newly christened "movies we wish we were more excited about" category, especially enjoying the rush of finding the overlaps (or lack thereof!). The news this week includes a quick up...

As “2021 Month” stretches into February, Carl and Eitan take a look back at the best TV, film and media moments of 2021. (Debatably) More importantly, Carl also gives out the inaugural The Goldfinch Award For The Wide-Release Film From An Established Director That Was Widely Reviled Or Ignored But I Also Loved. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @stuckindevpod

After being pleasantly surprised around how their 2021 predictions played out, Carl and Eitan shell their top 3 boldest takes for 2022. From the future of movie distribution, the need to add more diverse types of content into streaming subscriptions, all the way to a tech giant path to irrelevance, the boys really shoot far and wide. Before jumping into their predictions Carl and Eitan react live...

Carl and Eitan, like most of the world, learned about this years’ Golden Globes after they already happened. After a longer-than-planned analysis of the winners, the two take time to review their 2021 media business predictions. Both ended up (mostly) happy with their performance! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @stuckindevpod

Carl and Eitan welcome 2022 with a short episode reviewing their end-of-year break. After letting Carl's review of Don't Look Up send them into an exploration of sci-fi and fantasy impact on their worldview, the boys share everything they watched during the break (and, sometimes, even why).  On top of this being the first episode of the year, it's also the first episode where both hosts finally ha...

This week, Eitan and Carl are joined by Eitan’s extended family. Though none of the family have speaking roles, the hustle and bustle of the holidays adds to the poorly-mic’d ambience of the episode. Family is a running theme through the episode. As proud skeptics of the democratizing power of Web3, the two discuss Jack Dorsey’s freshly-minted Block family of companies. No winter 2021 SID episode...

What’s that smell? A discrepancy between critic and audience scores around the beautiful art form that is cinema? Preposterous or expected? In this week’s episode, Carl and Eitan are joined by frequent guest Kevin in exploring different interesting trends in Rotten Tomatoes land. From 2021 films that are beloved by both audiences and critics to the ones with the biggest gap in history, this episod...

As the winter sun gets lower and the laziness of the holidays sets in, all Carl and Eitan want to do is catch up on the latest TV and movies. This, of course, is what they always want to do, but in the spirit of the season they do an all-WAWW episode to catch up with each other. The death of Stephen Sondheim – on the heels of the Sondheim love letter Tick Tick Boom – also serves as an introspectio...

The 30 minutes Stuck in Development podcast you didn’t know you needed! In a week all about being thankful, the boys share their gratitude for Netflix finally sharing more granular viewing data, and continue to be surprised about Bird Box being a full 50M more viewed hours than the second most viewed movie, even though it looks like Red Notice might have to say something about it. Later, they quic...

For the first time in an embarrassingly long time, Carl and Eitan had the chance to discuss a new release that they have both seen. Despite finding The French Dispatch frustrating , they were ultimately enchanted by Wes Anderson’s new film. The two also chat about Eternals’ impressive $71M opening and this week’s episode of Succession . Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @stuckindevpod