
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Rob Long has a favorite story about network upfronts: a television network, unable to decide which of three pilots to schedule, flew all three casts to New York on the same plane, collected focus group results mid-flight, and met them at the gate — whisking some into Manhattan and stardom, and sending the others home. It contains everything you need to know about Hollywood: extravagant spending, procrastination and cruelty masquerading as efficiency. But here’s the thing — the focus group never actually went away. It just moved to TikTok. And it’s been telling Hollywood exactly what audiences want since approximately 1994. They just won’t look.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
By TheAnkler.com4.9
470470 ratings
Rob Long has a favorite story about network upfronts: a television network, unable to decide which of three pilots to schedule, flew all three casts to New York on the same plane, collected focus group results mid-flight, and met them at the gate — whisking some into Manhattan and stardom, and sending the others home. It contains everything you need to know about Hollywood: extravagant spending, procrastination and cruelty masquerading as efficiency. But here’s the thing — the focus group never actually went away. It just moved to TikTok. And it’s been telling Hollywood exactly what audiences want since approximately 1994. They just won’t look.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

700 Listeners

1,856 Listeners

1,536 Listeners

1,402 Listeners

5,175 Listeners

4,891 Listeners

496 Listeners

6,604 Listeners

2,056 Listeners

2,821 Listeners

3,958 Listeners

3,353 Listeners

854 Listeners

1,041 Listeners

1,102 Listeners