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The 2026–27 Scale Cheat Sheets Are Live
I spent an embarrassing number of hours crafting the perfect WGA, DGA, and SAG-AFTRA scale minimum tables for my own day-to-day use. Would you like to…
Jul 20
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Ken Basin
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The Billionaire's Heart (Still) Wants What the Billionaire's Heart Wants
I know it seems unimaginable. And it's too early to start workshopping UniWarnerMount-like portmanteaus just yet. But don't sleep on David Ellison — or…
Jul 17
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Ken Basin
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Is Paramount Really Going to Leave California to Get Its Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Done?
We interrupt our regularly scheduled speculation about one mega-corporate transaction with breaking "news" and speculation about a different…
Jul 13
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Ken Basin
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"Bigger Is Better" Is Dead; Long Live "Bigger Is Better!"
Comcast's decision to spin off NBCU isn't a ruse, and it doesn't mean that scale has suddenly gone out of style — only that, in the eyes of our investor…
Jul 10
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Ken Basin
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Don't Panic; There Will Be Plenty of Time for That Later
It's surprising (and nice!) to see the town so sanguine... I'm not here to rile anyone up. That will come in Part 3.
Jul 3
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Ken Basin
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How the Best in the Business Give and Respond to Creative Notes
If you're as fascinated and inspired by true excellence in any professional craft as I am — or if you want to see one small example of what makes HBO…
Jun 18
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Ken Basin
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You Could Just Ask
Two showrunners have completely opposite preferences when it comes to studio notes. Neither is wrong. So why do execs try to guess — or worse, impose…
Jun 16
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Ken Basin
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How Indie Studios Use the Streamers' Own Money to Outbid Them
The licensing model that built the streaming era ends up costing platforms more to rent IP than they were willing to pay to own it. What, if anything…
Apr 21
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Ken Basin
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No-Longer-Anonymous Business Affairs Exec Responds to Still-Mostly-Anonymous Internet Comments
For the debut of my Ask the Author series, I do exactly what you'd expect: respond publicly to anonymous Internet comments on an article I published…
Apr 13
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Ken Basin
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Confessions of a (No Longer Anonymous) Business Affairs Executive
If you really want to appreciate this weekend's announcement of an early WGA-AMPTP deal, take a moment to remind yourself just how badly the whole…
Apr 10
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Ken Basin
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Five Early Reactions to the WGA's New Deal
We don't know much about what's in the WGA's new deal with the AMPTP — but what does the simple fact that it's already done tell us?
Apr 6
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Ken Basin
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The Billionaire's Heart Wants What the Billionaire's Heart Wants
Is Paramount's victory in its battle against Netflix a sign of Hollywood finally getting the kind of leadership needs? Or just the kind leadership it…
Mar 9
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Ken Basin
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