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• A Netflix succession clue?: Anyone else find it significant that Netflix’s $7 price point and Nov. 3 launch date for its ad-supported tier—one of the most significant moments in the history of Netflix—was announced today not by co-C.E.O. Reed Hastings but by C.O.O. Greg Peters? I know Peters does a lot of these things, but this particular reveal...

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Since late February, the TV executive Chris Albrecht has been quietly fighting with Viking, the publisher of a new book about HBO. At issue: How, exactly, his abusive past behavior would be characterized. Albrecht, if you don’t know him, is one of those confounding Hollywood figures: super smart and talented—he’s credited with shepherding The Sopranos, Sex and the City and Six Feet Under during an epic 22-year run at HBO—and, at least during certain periods of his life, super troubled and problematic. He was famously fired by Time Warner in 2007 after...