Meghan Markle’s Consigliere, No Labels Schadenfreude, NFL’s Turf War

Happy Friday and welcome back to The Daily Courant, your pocket guide to Puck’s best new reporting.

First up today, Matt Belloni brilliantly dissects Bob Iger’s executive shakeup atop Disney’s film division. Does the elevation of former Searchlight boss David Greenbaum foreshadow a major overhaul to their studio strategy?

Plus, below the fold: Tara Palmeri reveals Speaker Mike Johnson’s secret braintrust and the No Labels schadenfreude going around town. Lauren Sherman identifies Meghan Markle’s private stylist and the essential front-row chatter emanating from Paris Fashion Week. John Ourand digs into the $115 million plot twist in the Diamond Sports saga. And on The Powers That Be, John and Peter Hamby discuss MLB’s “Pantsgate” scandal and the NFL’s simmering turf war with college football.

MATTHEW BELLONI

Executive shuffles at two top film studios underscore a strategic shift amid a challenged business, where fewer projects are getting made, quality may finally trump quantity, and, if all goes well, Disney could actually ditch the cookie cutter for the occasional creative risk.

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TARA PALMERI

News and notes on the anxieties, murmurs, and insights circulating through this town, including No Labels’ big vote and Mike Johnson’s burgeoning in-crowd.

LAUREN SHERMAN

Some news: Meghan Markle is teaming up with Jamie Mizrahi to revamp her look, and probably her reputation, and presumably create some new optionality around her post-Spotify future.

JOHN OURAND

Yes, yes, Diamond is emerging from bankruptcy with that $115 million Amazon dowry, but the industry’s largest owner of regional sports networks has a whole new slew of problems to solve now.