Tucker’s Next Act, Rogan vs Megyn, Debt Ceiling Fears

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon dispatch of Puck’s best new reporting.

Today, we lead with Bill Cohan’s incisive analysis of Bob Iger’s sobering three months in Burbank, as Wall Street hammers the Disney stock. Plus, notes on Washington’s debt ceiling roulette and Softbank’s post-WeWork comeback tour.

Then, below the fold: Baratunde Thurston imagines the playbook for Hollywood’s inevitable A.I. integration. Dylan Byers lowers a boom mic into CNN H.Q. after Trump’s tempestuous town hall. Puck contributor Jonathan Handel wonders whether a Director’s Guild deal could foreshadow an end to the writers’ strike. And on The Powers That Be, Jon Kelly and Dylan Byers ponder a pressing media question: is Tucker Carlson a Rogan or a Megyn?

WILLIAM D. COHAN

There’s no erasing his historic earlier tenure at Disney, but the company is looking increasingly vulnerable, especially since Iger’s last big deal will likely be the $9 billion he’d spend to buy Hulu.

BARATUNDE THURSTON

News and notes on an industry reckoning with a creative and technological revolution.

DYLAN BYERS

Inside CNN, the reverberations from Wednesday’s town hall are still being profoundly felt, further testing the long-strained relationship between the network’s anchors and journalists on one side and their newly dispassionate boss on the other. As one insider put it: “It’s Chris Licht’s fucking CNN now.”

JONATHAN HANDEL

A crystal ball into the posturing, pressure points and players in a potential pact that could also set the table for a WGA deal—and maybe end the strike.