Good evening, and welcome back to What I’m Hearing. Apologies for missing Thursday’s issue, I wasn’t feeling great. But I’m back, and fully re-charged.

Reminder: This week on The Town: Lucas Shaw and I debated if Bob Iger will bail on Hulu; James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams revealed secrets of Sumner Redstone’s girlfriends, and I surveyed the media deals landscape with Axios’ Sara Fischer. Subscribe here, and if this email was forwarded to you, click here to become a card-carrying Puck member.

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Discussed in this issue: Bob Bakish, Rupert Murdoch, Kevin Costner, Suzanne Scott, Nina Diaz, Lawreen Loeser, Brad Slater, Lina Khan, Marty Singer, Jamie Lee Curtis, Chris McCarthy, and Tom Cruise’s big CAA ovation…

But first…

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