The Business
Hosted by Kim Masters and Matt Belloni and Lucas Shaw and Eric Deggans · KCRW
4.5from 826 ratings
- 1,045
- Episodes
- 121
- Transcribed
- 826
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2006
- First episode
- 307M
- YouTube views
About The Business
Lively banter about entertainment industry news and in-depth interviews with directors, producers, writers and actors, hosted by award-winning journalist Kim Masters of The Hollywood Reporter.
- Publisher
- KCRW
- Category
- arts · news · tv & film
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 6 Aug 2006
- Latest episode
- 6 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
121 of 1,045 episodes have a transcript.
6 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
Wittney Horton on casting 'Backrooms' and coaching Kane Parsons
30 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ and the politics of getting a movie seen
23 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Inside the great Netflix shakeup
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Wittney Horton on casting 'Backrooms' and coaching Kane Parsons
Published 6 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I think a lot of people think of casting as like filtering through auditions, but I think it's a lot more than that. I agree. I think that that is probably the biggest misnomer about what casting is, because it's certainly a large part of the job, but it's not the only thing that we do. […]
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Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Wittney Horton
- Alex Gibney
- Eric Goode
- Gerry Rich
- Van Dyke Parks
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 306,965,971
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 666 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.6 / 5
- 160 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 87 / 100
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- Quality
- 96
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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Who hosts The Business?
Kim Masters and Matt Belloni and Lucas Shaw and Eric Deggans host the show. Published by KCRW.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes weekly, based on its RSS feed.
Does The Business take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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