Marc Hershon is a branding expert who has dreamed up names for countless hit products. He is a comedy veteran, a comedy impresario, and he teaches improv comedy. He has penned several television movies, and is the co-author of I Hate People, a guide to getting “what you want out of your job.” He has reviewed comedy podcasts for The Huffington Post and Splitsider and was the longtime producer and host of “Succotash” the comedy podcast podcast. Marc has spent much of his adult life trying to get people to stop using the word “podcast” and to use “soundcast” instead. Yet, he refers to this show as a “podcast”. He’s mercurial, that guy.
We wouldn’t call this an “emergency” pod, but there was a LOT of material for Marc and host Phil Leirness to cover …
*What the court-approved merger between Paramount/Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery means for a couple news outlets, a couple cable channels, two different streaming platforms, DC Entertainment, and the HBO series “Lanterns”.
*Why a hit show for Apple TV might not exactly be what anyone considers a “hit show”.
*Two listeners wrote about some of their various “comfort” watches, “binge” watches, and “nope” (not going to and you can’t make me) watches.
*Marc and Phil weigh in on the three in-progress seasons they have both been watching: Season one of “Lanterns”, season four of “Ted Lasso”, season six of “Slow Horses”.
*Marc offers reviews of the just-launched “Brothers”, the recently concluded “Colin from Accounts” and season 2 of “Dark Matter”.
*“Liminal Space” is a topic that is becoming a major conversation point in several different shows throughout the Chillpak Hollywood Presents … universe of shows. Marc and Phil begin to tackle it from a television perspective.
*Phil regales Marc with previews of many soon to debut shows and seasons hitting the “airwaves” between now and Thanksgiving.
*Finally, what’s with all these “Best of Television” lists being published two-thirds of the way through the year, and 26 years into the century? Marc tries to explain, he and Phil offer commentary, and Marc follows up by offering his list of The Ten Best Lists of 2026!
Come for the news, views, previews and reviews. Stay to see if you can figure out the connection between the classic TV instrumental theme used to open the show and the theme song with lyrics used to close the show!
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