Trump’s Music War, NFL Media Murmurs, The ‘Daily Show’ Renaissance

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon dispatch featuring Puck’s best new reporting.

First up today, Lauren Sherman takes a microscope to the business of New York Fashion Week, from the investors kicking the tires to the murmurs surrounding WME Fashion president Susan Plagemann’s management of the asset. Plus, fresh intel on The Row’s mystery investor.

Then, below the fold: Matt Belloni digs into Hollywood studios’ shocking dearth of original scripts. John Heilemann and Dan Pfeiffer chop it up on the post-Labor Day state of the presidential race. John Ourand wonders whether NFL Media and ESPN will ever tie the knot. On Impolitic, Heilemann and Jordan Klepper candidly assess Jon Stewart’s return to The Daily Show. On Fashion People, Lauren and Gab Waller discuss the art of sourcing impossible-to-find luxury items. And on The Powers That Be, Eriq Gardner joins Peter Hamby to unpack a new Trump lawsuit that could reshape how political campaigns use music.

LAUREN SHERMAN

As Ari Emanuel and Silver Lake take Endeavor private, the operating assumption is that all the non-core assets (basically everything outside of live sports and representation) is on the table. A number of investors are kicking the tires on New York Fashion Week. But what are they actually buying? (Plus, some news on The Row mystery…)

MATTHEW BELLONI

According to a new study, only one-tenth of the 500+ movies either released or scheduled for release by the major studios and streamers between 2022 and 2026 actually came from an internal development slate. Is this the new normal, or a wake-up call that the system has become far too risk-averse?

JOHN HEILEMANN

A sobering conversation with Dan Pfeiffer, the Obama advisor turned podcaster and polling guru, on whether Democrats are overrating Harris, how Trump could bridge the gender gap, and which states keep him up at night.

JOHN OURAND

The league’s three-year attempt to unload the entity, which controls the NFL Network and RedZone, is the latest casualty of the declining cable business.