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Jon Stewart Says Apple & Amazon Have Caused An “Earthquake” Within Entertainment Business
EXCLUSIVE: Jon Stewart’s return to The Daily Show has breathed new life into the Comedy Central talk show and won an Emmy for its efforts. But just over a year ago, Stewart was about to have his previous show, The Problem with Jon Stewart, canceled by Apple TV+ over creative differences or “different agendas”. Now, […]
“The ethos of legacy entertainment is we’ve created this incredibly eccentric business where you need an agent and a manager and a lawyer, and they’re gonna take about 60% of what you make, but without them, there’s nothing you can do. What they believe now is the auteur system, which has always sort of existed within film and TV… and this idea of ruthlessly efficient content factories, where what matters is the real estate and not the individual creative,” Stewart added. In May, he revealed that the iPhone maker wouldn’t let him have Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan on his show’s podcast spinoff.
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