John and Craig welcome back writer/producer/director Aline Brosh McKenna ahead of her feature directorial debut “Your Place Or Mine.” Aline discusses how tech has changed Hollywood and finding new creative challenges.

We also talk about streaming news, platform mergers, and follow up on script consultants. Megana asks about professional ambitions and we answer listener questions on firing agents and staffing while pregnant.

In our bonus segment for premium members, we go behind the scenes of Episode 3 of The Last of Us and force Craig to answer the question on everyone’s mind: what games did Bill and Frank play together?

Links:

• Watch Your Place or Mine on Netflix at 12:01am on 2/10/23
• Showtime and Paramount+ Merging, With Rebrand Planned
• ‘Westworld’ Gets New Home As Warner Bros. Discovery Strikes Roku & Tubi FAST Channel Deals
• Cancellations Of Completed Seasons Of TV Series; Experts Weigh In On Whether Trend Will Continue
• Salem 1692 Game
• Nuun Hydration Tablets
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• John August on Twitter
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• Outro by Nico Mansy (send us yours!)
• Scriptnotes is produced by Megana Rao and edited by Matthew Chilelli.

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