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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 the whole industry agreed was a catastrophe). Disney has been flooding its streaming service with Star Wars for years, and audiences have simply burned out: are streamers so desperate for content that they're systematically dismantling every billion-dollar movie brand Hollywood has left?  And does anyone actually watch the shows they get in return?

THEN: Stephen Colbert's final episode airs May 21 and Kimmel, Fallon, Meyers, Oliver are rallying around him. It's genuinely touching. But it also made Jay think about Leno and Letterman (who loathed each other) and Carson freezing Joan Rivers out for life after she dared to get her own show. The whole industry is so aggressively supportive of each other now: is that warmth actually good for culture, or did we lose something real when TV rivalries died?

ALL THAT PLUS: The Cannes Film Festival, Glen and Rhea bond hard over Deadloch, and Glen is wants everyone to watch Jury Duty: Company Retreat.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Glen Macnow and Ray Didinger are going to be LIVE talking about patriotic sports movies on May 27th, at the Ritz Theater in Haddon Township, NJ.  If you don't get your tickets right now, you will spend the rest of your life explaining to people why you missed the greatest night of sports cinema conversation ever assembled!

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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. 

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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 the scenery so aggressively she’s a structural hazard, Jay thinks she’s the only thing holding it together, and both of them agree Emily Blunt deserved a better movie than the one she got. Is this proof that Hollywood has been leaving a fortune on the table by over-indexing on teenage boys and Marvel sequels?

THEN: SNL is the only late night institution the Trump administration hasn’t gone after and the gang has theories about why. While Jimmy Kimmel is fielding daily White House attacks and Colbert has gone dark, SNL keeps swinging and nobody’s calling their advertisers. Is it the rotating cast? The difference between caricature and attack? Plus: Jon Stewart’s Correspondents’ Dinner bit analyzing the assassination attempt footage may be the single funniest thing anyone has produced all year... and it barely made the news cycle.

ALL THAT PLUS: Hulu dropped a surprise The Bear prequel episode before Season 4 even officially launches, and Angelo still won’t watch it. A deep dive into the history of May Sweeps, Rhea cannot stop watching High Country on Hulu or talking about Criminal Record Season 2 on Apple TV. Angelo found a Scottish show about a man with Tourette’s that he’s calling “beyond spectacular.” And much MUCH more!

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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. 

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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!

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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. 

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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!

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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. 

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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!

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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. 

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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!

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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. 

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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!

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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. 

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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!

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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. 

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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!

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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. 

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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!

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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.