Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Barry Diller delivers a sweeping, unflinching critique of what has happened to Hollywood. He contrasts the era when studios were singular, creative enterprises — where everyone from the chairman to the gaffer lived and breathed the product — with today's conglomerate model where movies are item 8 or 12 on a corporate agenda. He explains how streaming has vaporized the cultural staying power of content, references Roots as an example of what television once meant, and laments that the process has become so dehumanizing that even actors now audition alone into their iPhones.
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Barry Diller delivers a sweeping, unflinching critique of what has happened to Hollywood. He contrasts the era when studios were singular, creative enterprises — where everyone from the chairman to the gaffer lived and breathed the product — with today's conglomerate model where movies are item 8 or 12 on a corporate agenda. He explains how streaming has vaporized the cultural staying power of content, references Roots as an example of what television once meant, and laments that the process has become so dehumanizing that even actors now audition alone into their iPhones.
#hollywood #media #business
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Episode debuted nationwide in 2026.
![Stephen A. Smith [Preview]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/koUnhh8BWlU/mqdefault.jpg "Stephen A. Smith [Preview]
More than 20 years after first interviewing him on a high school radio show, Graham Bensinger reunites with ESPN star Stephen A. Smith — this time with rare, behind-the-scenes access. Graham follows Stephen A. from the First Take studio in New York to the headquarters of Straight Shooter Media, and inside his private Miami home — a space he rarely opens to anyone. During their time together, Smith reflects on family loss, his ESPN firing and comeback, and his growing political aspirations — including why he says he’d only consider the presidency.
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