Hello and welcome back to What I’m Hearing.

As a reminder, I’m on vacation this week but you remain in the loving care of Puck’s streaming industry analyst, Julia Alexander, and Hollywood legal expert Eriq Gardner. Julia’s previewing the August streaming showdown between House of the Dragon (HBO) and The Rings of Power (Amazon), and Eriq’s got an update on CBS’s Les Moonveslitigation and Paramount’s $100 million insurance dispute over Mission Impossible 7.

By the way, I’ll be interviewing some folks from Hulu’s The Dropout in New York City on August 10. Doors open at 6 p.m., followed by a panel and a reception with yours truly. Yes, there will be free food. It’s for Puck subscribers only—upgrade to a Puck membership now and email fritz@puck.news to register.

But first…

• The NFL Enters the Streaming Wars: The National Football League is launching a streaming service—kind of. The new NFL+ (what else would they call it?), which debuted on Monday, will offer out-of-market pre-season games and in-season local games, plus...

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That’s not true this summer. There’s only one blockbuster-style film, Brad Pitt’s Bullet Train, in theaters this August. The real showdown that has industry watchers salivating is happening on streaming platforms, and that’s something truly spectacular considering that Netflix used to be the only major player in the space. Again, by used to I mean three years ago. This summer, five shows will test a number of streaming strategies and theories, delivering key insights not only for their platforms but also for the industry at large: House of the Dragon (HBO), The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Amazon), She-Hulk and Andor (Disney+), and The Sandman (Netflix)...