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The 2023 Allen & Company conference's attendees from Hollywood are facing profit pressures and thorny questions around AI, cord-cutting and consolidation

During Boston University’s 150th graduation commencement at Nickerson Field on Sunday, audience members, including 2023 graduates, jeered and booed Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav as he accepted an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Zaslav’s 20-minute speech was interrupted with yells and synchronized chants such

Welcome to FAST: The free, ad-supported, streaming television bargain bin.

Bigger writers rooms and longer seasons mean more costs. This strike comes as streamers look to cut costs every which way, from merging services to cutting content.

Over the past year, dozens of shows have been disappearing from streaming platforms like HBO Max and Showtime. Shows like Minx, Made for Love, FBoy Island, and even big budget hits like Westworld have been removed entirely.So why did these platforms, after investing millions of dollars in creating original content, decide not just to cancel those shows, but to make them unavailable altogether?We dive into the economics of the television industry looking for answers to a streaming mystery that has affected both fans and creatives. And we find out what happens when the stream runs dry.This episo...