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    The Business

    Hollywood News Banter

    Kim Masters is joined by Michael Schneider, Executive Editor of TV Guide Magazine to discuss top entertainment news stories of the week.

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    By Kim Masters • Sep 5, 2014 • 1 min read

    Kim Masters is joined by Michael Schneider, Executive Editor of TV Guide Magazine to discuss top entertainment news stories of the week.

    - A surprising pick to run DreamWorks. Michael Wright will be leaving the TV world--he was Turner’s president of programming-- to become the CEO of the production company.

    - Netflix is paying big bucks for the streaming rights to a show that hasn’t even aired on television yet.

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    George Takei on Activism, Shatner and ‘To Be Takei’
    1. 0:52Hollywood News BanterYou’re reading this
    2. 6:19‘To Be Takei’
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      Kim Masters

      partner/writer at Puck News, host of KCRW's “The Business.”

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      Kaitlin Parker

      Producer, 'The Business' and 'Hollywood Breakdown'

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      Michael Schneider

      Senior editor at Variety

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    The full episode

    1 of 2
    George Takei on Activism, Shatner and ‘To Be Takei’
    1. 0:52Hollywood News BanterYou’re reading this
    2. 6:19‘To Be Takei’
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