David Katz

In their commitment to supporting genders and races historically unseen in the director role, my producers on Fire Country chose to promote cast and crew from within the show to direct. With an order spanning 20-22 episodes a year, our cast and crew are fluent in the unique challenges of filming a nine- to 10-month shooting season — one of the longest in television production.

For whatever reason, there are films that we in the entertainment media fail to notice. In the case of the documentary Am I Racist?, that whatever reason is that we're liberals. Not one mainstream media company reviewed the film - the first theatrical release from Ben Shapiro's conservative media company The Daily Wire - which has been in the top 10 for two weeks. So The Hollywood Reporter enlisted someone who doesn't care if he loses all his friends. That person was me.

In physics, the three-body problem is ugly. When you have one or two objects exerting gravity on a body, it moves in a predictable pattern. Add a third and its chaos. In 2024, the three-body problem in media is that every piece of art has a creator, a consumer, and politics. So when Netflix's sci-fi series 3 Body Problem debuted on March 21, anti-woke crusaders such as VCs Marc Andreessen and Andrew Chen only made it one scene in before posting that it was a cri de coeur to end the far-left agenda.