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The TV Show is a weekly podcast hosted by Jay Black, with regular guests Angelo Cataldi and Rhea Hughes. Each week, we dive into the new Golden Age of Television, with a discussion of the latest shows and news.
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Send a text Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back to discuss the biggest controversy in TV this week: which Super Bowl halftime show to watch. Now that everything is political, what singers we enjoy with our nachos has to be political too. The gang discusses which performance was better and where the halftime show should go from here. THEN: Piracy is back, with sales of the "superbox", a device you attach to your TV that allows access to all the streaming sites for free, booming. A...
Send us a text Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back to discuss the NFL's dominating ratings through the regular season and the playoffs...right up to the Conference Championships, which were down around 7%. Will the lack of a big market team mean the ratings slide will continue or was it a momentary drop due to the bad weather last week? THEN, the gang talks about Markiplier's Iron Lung, a movie that he self-funded, self-distributed, directed, starred-in, produced, edited, and probably...
Send us a text Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back to discuss the brand new Star Trek show, Starfleet Academy, and only one of them is really happy about it (hint: he's a huge nerd!). Is Academy the "Nu Trek" show worthy of the title of the new TNG? THEN, the gang discusses Jimmy Kimmel's unprecedented shift from comedy to politics, something that late night has never really seen before. Whether or not it's persuasive, it's certainly courageous! All that PLUS: a review of Press on Amazo...
Send us a text Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back to discuss the hottest new show on TV: Heated Rivalry and the bump in ratings that the NHL is seeing because of it. Would a popular show about a sport make you interested in seeing that sport? THEN, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck went on Joe Rogan's podcast... and it was good!? How did that happen? The gang discusses just how well the lifelong friends are able to break down the movie business and how good Joe Rogan can be w...
Send us a text Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back to discuss Sunday's Golden Globes and whether or not people actually care about awards shows anymore. Other than One Battle After Another winning (thereby vindicating Jay), Sean Penn smoking, and Nikki Glaser's monologue, was there a single reason to watch? Then, is a discussion of streamflation -- streaming prices jumped 20% in 2025 and at what point do we say "enough?" What streamer is on the brink of cancellation for you? ...
Send us a text Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back to discuss whether or not there is a SECRET 9th episode of Stranger Things and what makes for a good final episode of a show. Were things better in the old days when shows would just... end? THEN, there's a new Chevy Chase documentary on CNN and whoooo boy, does he come off as bad in it. The gang discusses the documentary, jerks in Hollywood, and where, exactly, the line is when it comes to no longer supporting a star. All that PLUS: a...
Send us a text Angelo, Rhea, and Jay take a look back at 2025 and pick out the best and worst shows of the year. If you were looking for something to binge this New Years, they've got you covered! THEN: Stranger Things is having an all-time run when it comes to interest and buzz this holiday season, with two volumes dropped a few weeks a part, and a finale that's set to air on New Year's Eve that has already sold out in theaters around the country. Is this the future of how TV is ...
Send us a text It's just Jay and Rhea this week and it's a *very* special episode: 16 movies in a tournament to find out the very best Christmas movie all time. Whose bracket will you agree with? Jay's or Rhea's? You DON'T want to miss this episode! MAKE SURE TO VISIT OUR SPONSOR: Steven Singer Jewelers! The TV Show is a weekly podcast hosted by Jay Black, with regular guests Angelo Cataldi and Rhea Hughes. Each week, we dive into the new Golden Age of Television, with a di...
Send us a text In the wake of Rob Reiner's horrific death, Angelo, Rhea, and Jay celebrate his life and work by talking about the projects of his that they loved the most. From This is Spinal Tap to a A Few Good Men to the moving "fan film" of The Princess Bride released during covid, the first half of the show is devoted to a man who made all of our lives just a little bit brighter. THEN: It's the 20th anniversary of Jimmy Kimmel's "feud" with Matt Damon, which leads into a long conver...
Send us a text Rhea is back and she's just in time to join Angelo and Jay for a discussion about the latest developments in the Warner Brothers saga. It looked like it was going to be Netflix buying the storied company, but then, like a villain in a movie, Paramount swung back in with a hostile takeover attempt! Things are heating up and the gang breaks it down. THEN, Mad Men made its debut on HBO, and, despite the technical glitches that made Zaslav's team look completely incompe...
Send us a text It's just Jay and Angelo this week (with a special visit from Jay's two oldest kids) and they start off the show fuming mad at what ESPN is doing to the greatest entertainment on TV: The NFL Red Zone. They keep shoving commercials into it and the question is: when will it finally be enough? Then, it's a conversation with Jay's kids about Stranger Things Season 5 -- it was supposed to be a conversation with Angelo, but he just couldn't stomach a bunch of kids fighting mons...
Send us a text Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back to get deep into Netflix's latest huge hit show, The Beast in Me. It's an airport novel of a TV show, cranking on all cylinders, and the crew is united in their thoughts about it! THEN, HBO is in trouble and their plan to save themselves is... to go back to being HBO!? Five years ago, HBO rebranded from the Mercedes Benz of TV into something like a nice minivan as a way to compete with Netflix and it's backfired. So they've ...
Send us a text Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back to talk about dead celebrities: specifically, which celebrities have earned the most amount of money despite not being on this planet anymore. Some are easy to guess, others are ones you wouldn't have thought of in a million years. Listen and play along at home! THEN: ESPN is buying MLB.TV, despite the fact that the NFL now owns 10% of ESPN, which means, as Angelo points out... that the NFL now owns a piece of the MLB, which is just nu...
Send us a text Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back to discuss the premier of TV's biggest event show in ages: Pluribus, a gigantic Sci-Fi show, with a huge budget and Vince Gilligan's name behind it. Does it live up to the hype?! What are some other shows that debuted huge and then fell off the map? Then, the gang turns to Sydney Sweeney's disastrous Oscar bid, Christie, a movie that had the 9th worst wide debut of any movie... ever. Is this it for her movie career...
Send us a text Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back to discuss the amazing ratings of an all-time great World Series and whether or not changes like the pitch clock have saved the decades-long decline of Major League Baseball. Then, the gang discusses Reese Witherspoon's interesting comments about how the decline of the romantic comedy might be to blame for why young people today have a hard time dating. All that PLUS, a discussion of Sony's new approach to charging for streaming content, a ...
Send us a text Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back to discuss the brand new hit movie on Netflix, House of Dynamite, and it's explosive, controversial LET DOWN of an ending. Are audience's owed a satisfying ending? Maybe not, but they're at least owed AN ENDING! Then, it's a discussion of Taylor Sherridan's big bombshell of a deal with Peacock. Why did Paramount let their golden boy slip away, especially considering the huge deals they just gave to South Park and the Duffer broth...
Send us a text We open with the headline everyone’s talking about: Saturday Night Live host Sabrina Carpenter dropping not one but two F-bombs during her performance. Was it an accident—or marketing genius? The crew recalls when saying that word on air could end your career (see: Charles Rocket, 1980) and marvels at how little anyone seems to care now. That morphs into a look back at TV’s most shocking live moments, including the Bud Dwyer tragedy, and a reminder that some things on televisio...
Send us a text A moment that’s been 180 episodes in the making: the entire crew finally recording in person. We start the show with a heartfelt discussion about the passing of Diane Keaton, whose legacy sparks both nostalgia and debate. From Annie Hall to Baby Boom to Something’s Gotta Give, the crew unpacks what made her such an everywoman icon. Would a “modern Diane Keaton” even be possible in an era of Botox and CGI storytelling? We then pivot to something far less wholesome.... Jared Leto...
Send us a text We start the show by breaking down Taylor Swift’s box office takeover. Her new concert film pulled in over $33 million this weekend—crushing The Rock’s Smashing Machine and proving, once again, that Swifties might just be single-handedly keeping theaters alive. But is this really the path to saving cinema, or is it a one-off Taylor phenomenon? This leads us into a larger discussion on whether event-style experiences—like Barbenheimer—are the only way to get people off the couch...
Send us a text We start the show by giving our thoughts on HBO’s ‘Task’. From the same creators of “Mayor of Kingstown’, how do feel it matches up against the long running HBO franchise? This leads us into a discussion as to whether we grade shows differently based on if we know the area it takes place in. Kimmel and Colbert had a joint simulcast on each other shows the other night. This leads us into a discussion about the overwhelming uproar on Kimmel and Colbert‘s suspensions. From our con...
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