Inside Hollywood with Love and Humour

Those who remember the 1992 film The Player, will recall its Hollywood inside jokes and its social commentary on how movies are made. Think of an updated version for our social media times, and you get The Studio, with its casual star cameos and its sarcasm-laden dialogues. There is a new studio head in town (Seth Rogen) who is tasked with making a franchise with the Kool-Aid guy, the fictional Continental Studio’s answer to Warner Bros Barbie, and he has to not only get over his natural inclination to make good movies (or artsy-fartsy films, as his boss, the studio chair played by Bryan Cranston, describes it) but to also learn to make products. Deadline scoops, Variety interviews, cameos by Martin Scorsese (who is pitching a story on Jonestown where cult members died by suicide by drinking the Kool-Aid) and Charlize Theron’s party. The series, which drops an episode every week, is studded with delicious takes on the state of entertainment in Hollywood and the competition it is up against. For those who love the movies and moviemaking, it is bet­ter than Kool-Aid, and unlike in Jonestown, no one dies.

Catherine O’HaraentertainmentEvan GoldbergKathryn HahnSeth Rogenstreaming businessThe Studio