The Hollywood News Banter

Michael Schneider, LA bureau chief for TV Guide Magazine sits in with John Horn, film writer for the Los Angeles Times, to banter about some of this week's top Hollywood news stories.

Today's Banter Topics:

- Exec shake-up at NBCUniversal among the Ccble ranks. Bonnie Hammer, the person credited for creating the successful USA network, has now been given that reigns of all of that studio's cable channels.

- TV pilot season has taken off and some familiar names may be headed back to broadcast television, including Robin Williams, Eddie Murphy, and Greg Kinnear.

- Dreamworks Animation lays off employees and shifts releases planned for 2012.