Bend It Like Berman, The R.F.K. Complexifier, Bezos’s MGM Report Card

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your digital guide to Puck’s best new reporting.

First up today, Lesley Goldberg offers her third and final (for now) semi-conclusive and detail-rich rundown of the most costly showrunner deals of Hollywood’s Peak TV era. After detailing the worst whiffs and the still-questionable contracts, Lesley reveals ones really worked.

Plus, below the fold: John Ourand goes one-on-one with NWSL commish Jessica Berman about her radical new vision for the league. Lauren Sherman identifies the fashion mastermind behind Kamala Harris’s wardrobe. Peter Hamby dissects an exclusive post-D.N.C. poll illuminating Harris’s hard pivot. Scott Mendelson takes a close look at MGM’s track record under Amazon rule. On Somebody’s Gotta Win, Tara Palmeri and McKay Coppins break down Trump’s bizarre relationship with evangelical voters. On Fashion People, Lauren and her buddy Jacob Gallagher consider the D.N.C.’s glaring fashion faux pas. And on The Powers That Be, Abby Livingston joins Peter Hamby to unpack all the angles surrounding R.F.K.’s exit from the presidential race.

LESLEY GOLDBERG

The third and final (for now) installment of our semi-conclusive and detail-rich list of the most costly showrunner deals, nine-figure pacts that led to zero new shows, and biggest underperformers of Hollywood’s hyper-inflated Peak TV era. Plus, the ones that really worked, too.

JOHN OURAND

National Women’s Soccer League commissioner Jessica Berman opens up about the league’s new partnerships, the soaring value of Angel City FC, expansion, and her long-term labor peace.

LAUREN SHERMAN

Kamala Harris has hired Leslie Fremar, stylist to Charlize Theron and Jennifer Connelly, to craft a low-key chic look that doesn’t scream elite.

PETER HAMBY

In a new post-convention poll from Puck and Echelon Insights, Harris’s hard pivot from progressive to patriot appears to have neutralized Trump’s advantage on issues like toughness, strength, and keeping the country safe. Meanwhile, almost nobody knows what it means to be “brat.”