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Welcome back to the delayed post-Oscars edition of What I’m Hearing. Honestly, I’m pretty exhausted, so it’ll be a somewhat shorter issue today…
🚨🚨Oscar ratings contest winners! Congrats to Hannah Kitziger, a development executive, and Janie Smith, a Toronto fan of The Town, who both guessed 19.3 million viewers, which was the closest to the actual 19.5 million number without going over. Some status-defining Puck merch is in the mail, and my take on the Oscar numbers is below…
Programming note: I did a bunch of Oscars-related media hits this week that nobody cares about after the show, but NPR’s Planet Money episode on awards campaigning is worth a listen. On The Town, Lucas Shaw and I gave our post-Oscars studio rankings and looked for meaning in the film hires at Netflix and Disney, Lauren Sherman explained which fashion brands won the season, and manager Michael Lasker provided a primer on how to gamble on the Oscars. Take notes for next year! Subscribe here and here.
Also, my Puck colleague Tara Palmeri was great on Real Time With Bill Maher on Friday. You can get her election podcast Somebody’s Gotta Win here, and the Puck politics newsletter, The Best & The Brightest, is free for Puck members. Just go to your settings and add it.
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Discussed in this issue: Brian Roberts, Jimmy Kimmel, Bryan Lourd, Christopher Nolan, Nelson Peltz, Al Pacino, Nate Parker, Ron Burkle, John Branca, Bob Iger, Ryan Gosling, Mark Shapiro, Jason Kilar, Diane Warren, and… Beyoncé’s caviar bowl.
But first…
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