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Lively banter about entertainment industry news and in-depth interviews with directors, producers, writers and actors, hosted by award-winning journalist Kim Masters of The Hollywood Reporter.
KCRW hosts The Business, a tv show with 1,000 episodes published.
Kim Masters talks to John Carney, who after his 2006 indie breakout film Once , has made a career of making movies about musicians making music. Generally, the ones who never got famous. His new film, Power Ballad , star
Kim Masters talks to screenwriter David Koepp about Disclosure Day , his latest collaboration with director Steven Spielberg. After Spielberg sent Koepp a 40 page treatment for the movie, which Koepp gave notes on, Spiel
This week, Kim Masters talks to Jack Thorne, who won all the prizes for writing the Netflix series Adolescence , about his new series, an adaptation of the novel Lord of the Flies . They also discuss how Adolescenc
This week, Eric Deggans talks to Courtney Kemp, co-creator of the Netflix crime drama Nemesis, about the changing TV landscape, and whether she sees Hollywood standing by diversity initiatives despite the pushback from t
Kim Masters wraps up her two-part conversation with legendary actor William Shatner and famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. Shatner reflects on his deeply emotional journey to space at age 90 and Tyson shares why h
This week, Kim Masters speaks with legendary actor William Shatner and famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson about their upcoming two-night live event, The Universe is Absurd . In the first installment of a sprawling
This week, Kim Masters speaks with director Kirk Jones and actor Robert Aramayo about I Swear , the BAFTA winning film about Tourette’s advocate John Davidson. Jones talks about using his own life savings to self-f
This week, Kim Masters speaks with Ben McKenzie about his documentary Everyone Is Lying to You for Money , which examines fraud in the cryptocurrency world. The actor discusses leaning into his popularity as Ryan on The
This week, Kim Masters speaks with Riz Ahmed about his modern retelling of Hamlet . The actor and producer discusses the decade-long journey of adapting the Shakespeare classic and how the project evolved from a planned
This week, Kim Masters sits down with Drew Goddard to discuss adapting Andy Weir’s novel Project Hail Mary for the big screen. He reflects on how his early days writing on Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Alias , and Los
The Academy Awards are behind us, but we’re sharing unheard stories from Kim Masters’ interviews with some of the recently minted Oscar winners. That includes director Joachim Trier, who shares how he landed
And just like that, Josh D'Amaro’s first week as CEO of The Walt Disney Company proved challenging, to say the least. From a brewing Bachelorette scandal to the abrupt cancellation of Sora by OpenAI, and fresh turm
This week, Kim talks to Diane Becker and Ted Tremper about The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist. The producers discuss how they managed to land big names in machine learning, including the CEOs of OpenAI and Ant
This week, Kim talks with Tilly Norwood creator Eline Van der Velden, who defends her controversial synthetic character . Van der Velden argues that Tilly Norwood is simply another character, an extension of herself, not
This week, Kim talks with SAG-AFTRA president Sean Astin about stepping into the job during a tumultuous year for Hollywood. His early tenure has already included an FCC clash involving Jimmy Kimmel , the arrival of synt
This week, Kim sits down with Brazilian writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho to discuss his Oscar-nominated political thriller The Secret Agent . A former film critic, Mendonça explains why he still reads
This week, Kim sits down with Academy Award–nominated cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw, who made history with Sinners as the first woman of color nominated for the Oscar for Best Cinematography. She discusses
This week, Kim Masters sits down with Academy Award nominated Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi to discuss his Palme d’Or winning film It Was Just an Accident. Panahi explains why he self finances his films, bringing
This week, Kim Masters is joined by Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter’s Executive Editor of Awards, for a deep dive into the 2026 Oscar nominees. Feinberg unpacks the debut of the new Best Casting category and
This week, Kim speaks with Alexandria Stapleton, the DGA Award nominated director of Sean Combs: The Reckoning , a Netflix docuseries that examines the rise and fall of the hip hop mogul. Stapleton discusses partnering w
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