Here Comes Pod

With a CV that includes overseeing massive hits like Dancing With The Stars, The Voice, The Apprentice and America's Got Talent, Paul Telegdy can rightly be called the King of entertainment programming. Paul joined me on Here Comes Pod to talk about life at the BBC, dealing with extraordinary people including a future President in his time as Chairman of Entertainment at NBC, his new venture The Whole Spiel and how an Elvis show left him and me crying in the chapel. Enjoy!

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The Premier League is back this weekend, and Tottenham Hotspur have been dominating the headlines in the run up to kick off. Whether it is the battle to keep their talismanic striker Harry Kane or the federal charges levelled at the "owner" Joe Lewis, the Spurs hierarchy, led by chairman Daniel Levy, have their hands full. So it's an interesting moment to look back at a previous era to see how leading a top flight football team has changed and to assess what has stayed the same.

In November 1984 my dad, Ken Goldman, sat down with newly installed Spurs chairman Irving Scholar to discuss his approach to running the club, the relationship between chairman and manager, transparency and communication, and his passion for Tottenham Hotspur. It's a fascinating insight into Scholar, Tottenham and English football in the pre-Premier League era. Enjoy!

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Kevin MacLellan joined me on Here Comes Pod this week to talk about a career that spanned the titans of the television industry - MTV Networks, HBO, Sony Pictures, Comcast and NBC Universal, where he oversaw annual income of $5bn and 2,500 employees. That was a massive job and Kevin shares the inside track on how to steer a business of that size, the dynamics of Comcast's acquisition of Sky, the impact of digital disruption on global legacy media companies, and why boys will be boys. Enjoy!

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There is no better person to explain the current turmoil gripping Hollywood than Puck News co-founder and former Hollywood Reporter editorial director Matt Belloni. Matt's newsletter What I'm Hearing is the definitive insider's guide to the latest buzz in Tinseltown and his podcast The Town is a must-listen for anyone interested in the entertainment business. We discussed the place of reporters in the Hollywood ecosystem, the latest updates on the strikes that have paralysed the entertainment business and whether The Nanny represents the past or the AI-generated future for Hollywood. Enjoy!

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This week's guest on Here Comes Pod is Sky entertainment supremo Zai Bennett. In a career that has spanned ITV, C5, the BBC and Sky, Zai has been involved in some of the most important moments in British broadcasting in the last quarter of a century. So we had a lot of ground to cover, from the birth of reality TV with TOWIE, navigating the creative and organisational juggernaut of the BBC, and marrying creativity, commerce and the customer at Sky with a slate of programming as diverse as Chernobyl, Gangs of London and A League Of Their Own that sit alongside the powerhouse shows of HBO. Enjoy!

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Claire Enders joined me on this week's episode of Here Comes Pod to talk about her eponymously named company Enders Analysis. As you can imagine the interview turned into a whirlwind tour de force of anecdotes from Claire's unique career spent analysing the media industry, campaigning to protect democracy and the plurality of information options available to the public, as well as sharing her deep love of British political thought and culture. Enjoy!

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My guest this week is Sara Johnson, whose career in the TV business has encompassed script editing, drama producing and series commissioning. Whether it was honing material at Eastenders, heading up drama at Sky and Fox UK, or bringing the transformative BBC series The A Word to the screen at Keshet, Sara has always been associated with best in class material. She is now using that creative energy, taste and passion in her latest endeavor, having launched Bridge06, a business that advises all parts of the TV and entertainment business in how to recognise and benefit from the value of deaf, disabled and neurodivergent talent.

So please enjoy the podcast, but also reach out to Sara to see how Bridge06 can help everyone make the TV industry more inclusive and better at reflecting the world we live in. The Bridge06 website is here: https://bridge06.com/ and you can reach Sara at [email protected]

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Look out for the upcoming episode of Here Comes Pod with Dan Chambers - we talked Big Brother, why Joey was not the best of friends, and the best place to create a TV series. Enjoy!

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Dan Chambers joined me on Here Comes Pod this week to talk about his time commissioning factual series at C4, heading up all programming at C5 and making iconic shows at Blink Films, which he co-founded and where he is joint MD. We talked Big Brother, making good and bad decisions in the world of acquisitions, and producing extraordinary series for broadcasters and platforms around the world. Enjoy!

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It was a privilege to be joined by Jeffrey Schlesinger for this week's episode of Here Comes Pod. In a 37 year career at Warner Brothers, 26 of which were spent as President of International TV Distribution, Jeffrey not only helped to define the image of Warner Brothers in the international market, but he also helped to establish the way that the international TV distribution industry operated. We talked about his start in the TV business, the highlights of his amazing career at Warner Brothers, the best deal he didn't do, and building a world class sales team. And in a first for Here Comes Pod, but not for Jeffrey, an elephant made an appearance in the proceedings. Enjoy!

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