Putin-Xi Bromance, Hollywood Franchise Fatigue, The Indictment Calculus

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon roundup of Puck’s latest reporting.

Today, we lead with Tara Palmeri and Dylan Byers’ provocative exchange on the cable news impact of Trump’s likely indictment—a plot twist set to test CNN’s centrist pivot and Fox’s post-Dominion politics.

Then, below the fold: Eriq Gardner dissects the Biden legislation that could cost Tiger Woods $30 million. On The Powers That Be, Ben Landy rings up Julia Ioffe to decipher the Putin-Xi summit, while Eriq calculates Trump’s true legal jeopardy. And on The Town, Matt Belloni and Lucas Shaw light a candle for the dying franchise entertainment model.

TARA PALMERI & DYLAN BYERS

The inside conversation surrounding Fox News’ post-Dominion politics and CNN’s centrist pivot as cable media braces for the return of the Trump show.

ERIQ GARDNER

A new suit over ex Erica Herman and a Hobe Sound mansion could open the floodgates for litigious exes waiting to take a swing at their former celebrity flames.

BEN LANDY, JULIA IOFFE, and ERIQ GARDNER

Julia Ioffe joins Ben Landy to discuss Putin’s latest Xi brown-nosing and dastardly Mariupol goose-stepping. Then Eriq Gardner swings by to discuss whether Trump is truly screwed.

MATTHEW BELLONI

Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to discuss whether we are starting to see signs of decline in the franchise entertainment model.