Happy soggy Sunday night from What I’m Hearing H.Q. in L.A. A couple housekeeping items:

Are you caught up on The Town? This week I debated Bob Iger’s most pressing challenges with Lucas Shaw, the business of Christmas movies with Lifetime’s Amy Winter, and some winners of the year in streaming with Julia Alexander. Subscribe on Spotify here and on Apple here.

Puck in the news:The New Yorker profiled one of our co-founders this week (and revealed one reason why we’re called Puck), Axios dissected our new push in D.C., and Adweek looked at our subscription-plus-ads business model. Or feel free to ignore this mildly gross Puck-promo.

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Discussed in this issue: Mike Hopkins, Ted Sarandos, Meredith O’Sullivan Wasson, Erik Lomis, Tom Cruise, Ari Emanuel, Bryan Fogel, Bob Iger, and Mike Ovitz’s monogrammed watch.
But first…

1. It’s pressure time for Hopkins, who now must justify...

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