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 way Gen X and Boomers did, and streaming kills the "channel-flipping" behavior that created casual fans in the first place. Meanwhile, NHL playoff ratings are surging on basic cable while the NBA tanks on Amazon — and nobody in power seems willing to say the quiet part out loud.

THEN: Michael opened to $200 million worldwide with a 40% critic score and a 96% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes — one of the widest gaps in movie history. Is this proof that professional film critics have completely lost the plot? The gang debates whether audiences go to biopics for journalism or for the music, why Bohemian Rhapsody set this template a decade ago, and what it means that newspapers like the Philadelphia Inquirer no longer even employ film critics.

ALL THAT PLUS: Mike Sielski on why letting your subject have editorial control turns biography into whitewashing — and how he kept his independence writing about both Kobe Bryant and Sylvester Stallone. Netflix's Untold series somehow makes a University of Florida documentary that doesn't mention Aaron Hernandez. The Last Dance lets Michael Jordan take shots at a dead GM with no rebuttal. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2 is exactly as good as you hoped. The Boys Episode 5 is back and leaning in. Zodiac might genuinely be the best movie of the 2000s. Mike's new book Going the Distance: Stallone, Philly, and the Story of Rockydrops in November — pre-orders matter. Jay's dad secretly put raw eggs in his childhood milkshakes. And much MUCH more!

MAKE SURE TO VISIT OUR SPONSOR: Steven Singer Jewelers!

The TV Show is a weekly podcast hosted by Jay Black, with regular guests Angelo Cataldi and Rhea Hughes. Each week, we dive into the new Golden Age of Television, with a discussion of the latest shows and news. 

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 night show you know is already dead, and Norm MacDonald gets posthumously vindicated for telling us "Comics Unleashed" was never what it claimed to be.

THEN: Project Hail Mary just crossed $600 million worldwide on a story with no explosions, no universe-ending stakes, and apparently no studio confidence (Amazon MGM nearly pulled it after two weeks). So why did audiences show up in massive numbers? The gang makes the case that word of mouth still works, and studios are just too scared to let it.

ALL THAT PLUS: Neil Gaiman, Good Omens, and the impossible question of whether the audience deserves a better ending than the situation allows. Angelo skips Balls Up AND Outcome so you don't have to. Rhea brings a French serial killer series from Hulu that actually has good dubbing. A book about the first nine years of The Simpsons. A Mother's Day gift that involves real diamonds and actual thought. And much MUCH more!

MAKE SURE TO VISIT OUR SPONSOR: Steven Singer Jewelers!

The TV Show is a weekly podcast hosted by Jay Black, with regular guests Angelo Cataldi and Rhea Hughes. Each week, we dive into the new Golden Age of Television, with a discussion of the latest shows and news. 

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 demand would actually get YOU back in that seat — and Angelo finally gets his chance to go OFF on 30 minutes of pre-show ads.

THEN: Streamers are now renewing shows before a single viewer has seen a single episode. Is this a vote of confidence — or just a marketing trick? PLUS: Euphoria returns after FOUR years, The Comeback is back after a decade, and Malcolm in the Middle drops a revival twenty years later — all in the same week. Is there such a thing as coming back too late?

ALL THAT PLUS: Is Bill Lawrence (Scrubs, Ted Lasso, Shrinking, and now the most-watched HBO comedy in a decade, Rooster) the closest thing television has right now to a guaranteed hitmaker? British Corner, personal picks from the whole gang, and much MUCH more!

MAKE SURE TO VISIT OUR SPONSOR: Steven Singer Jewelers!

The TV Show is a weekly podcast hosted by Jay Black, with regular guests Angelo Cataldi and Rhea Hughes. Each week, we dive into the new Golden Age of Television, with a discussion of the latest shows and news. 

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 the right moment to end the show?

THEN: The Boys are back and all of a sudden it looks like the bad guys might be winning the day.  The gang discusses which TV shows ended with the bad guys winning.

ALL THAT PLUS: British Corner, a review of Love on the Spectrum, and much MUCH more!

MAKE SURE TO VISIT OUR SPONSOR: Steven Singer Jewelers!

The TV Show is a weekly podcast hosted by Jay Black, with regular guests Angelo Cataldi and Rhea Hughes. Each week, we dive into the new Golden Age of Television, with a discussion of the latest shows and news. 

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!  Hollywood finally has a hit movie, both with the critics and at the box office, and now theater contracts for a cartoon are evicting it!  Why does Hollywood keep shooting itself in the foot like this!?

ALL THAT PLUS: British corner, a discussion of major stars who hurt their awards chances by talking too much, and much MUCH more!

MAKE SURE TO VISIT OUR SPONSOR: Steven Singer Jewelers!

The TV Show is a weekly podcast hosted by Jay Black, with regular guests Angelo Cataldi and Rhea Hughes. Each week, we dive into the new Golden Age of Television, with a discussion of the latest shows and news. 

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 Hail Mary, is Ryan Gosling now the biggest male star in the world?  The gang debates and then comes up with a list of undeniable movie stars.

ALL THAT, PLUS: David Zaslav's sickening $800 million payday, Dead Loch season 2, Taylor Sheridan's new show, and much MUCH more!

MAKE SURE TO VISIT OUR SPONSOR: Steven Singer Jewelers!

The TV Show is a weekly podcast hosted by Jay Black, with regular guests Angelo Cataldi and Rhea Hughes. Each week, we dive into the new Golden Age of Television, with a discussion of the latest shows and news. 

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 the 2025-2026 season and the whole gang watched it to decide whether or not it deserves that title.

All that PLUS: British Corner, a review of the new "manosphere" documentary, and much MUCH more!

MAKE SURE TO VISIT OUR SPONSOR: Steven Singer Jewelers!

The TV Show is a weekly podcast hosted by Jay Black, with regular guests Angelo Cataldi and Rhea Hughes. Each week, we dive into the new Golden Age of Television, with a discussion of the latest shows and news. 

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's main villain, claiming that the show and its producers defamed him through tricky editing.  The gang discusses whether or not any person on a "reality" show has the right to be upset at how the producers edit their appearance because we should ALL know better by now.

ALL THAT PLUS: The best movie and TV locations of all time, DTF St. Louis, and much MUCH more!

MAKE SURE TO VISIT OUR SPONSOR: Steven Singer Jewelers!

The TV Show is a weekly podcast hosted by Jay Black, with regular guests Angelo Cataldi and Rhea Hughes. Each week, we dive into the new Golden Age of Television, with a discussion of the latest shows and news. 

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.  The gang discusses other successful reboots, and of course, Jay's choice is one that Rhea and Angelo would've NEVER considered.

ALL THAT PLUS: British Corner, A new Gordon Ramsay Doc, and much MUCH More!

MAKE SURE TO VISIT OUR SPONSOR: Steven Singer Jewelers!

The TV Show is a weekly podcast hosted by Jay Black, with regular guests Angelo Cataldi and Rhea Hughes. Each week, we dive into the new Golden Age of Television, with a discussion of the latest shows and news. 

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 The Daily Show has done something very rare in today’s TV landscape: added viewers and young ones at that. Angelo and Jay wax poetic about Stewart’s unique abilities and then Rhea discusses if TDS is an aberration or whether young people don’t care about watching someone older so long as the talent is there.

ALL THAT PLUS: F1 on IMAX, a forgotten Rob Reiner gem, and much MUCH more!

MAKE SURE TO VISIT OUR SPONSOR: Steven Singer Jewelers!

The TV Show is a weekly podcast hosted by Jay Black, with regular guests Angelo Cataldi and Rhea Hughes. Each week, we dive into the new Golden Age of Television, with a discussion of the latest shows and news.