Speaker
Marina Hyde
Appearances over time
6 episodes
Episodes
6Podcasts
Quotes & moments
Amazon is investing approximately $50 billion in OpenAI, creating a conflict of interest that likely explains why they dropped the Luca Guadagnino film about Sam Altman.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup features 104 matches across 48 teams, making it the largest World Cup in history.
The Madonna biopic script was over 3 hours long, co-written and directed by Madonna herself, contributing to its collapse with Universal.
A YouGov poll found 74% of 18-to-24-year-olds follow sport regularly, debunking the myth that Gen Z has abandoned sport.
Six actresses — including Florence Pugh, Bebe Rexha, and Julia Garner — went through Madonna's boot camp before Garner was chosen for the role.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding was attended by approximately 1,000 celebrities at Madison Square Garden.
The Luca Guadagnino film Artificial, which Amazon dropped before release, reportedly cost around $40 million to produce.
After a viral love-triangle storyline on Bravo's Summer House, contestant Chiara gained over a million followers and was booked for Dancing with the Stars and Love Island Aftersun.
Despite high sports engagement, only 30% of 18-to-24-year-olds primarily watch full games, with 34% preferring highlights.
Taylor Swift is godmother to all three of Blake Lively's daughters but did not invite Lively or the children to her wedding.
A single tweet by Kylie Jenner saying she no longer used Snapchat caused the company's market value to drop by approximately one billion dollars.
The Traitors stage play, written by John Finnemore, always starts the same but has five different possible endings, meaning repeat audiences could theoretically see a new outcome.
Katie Price's first novel sold 400,000 copies in hardback, illustrating the commercial scale of her self-commodification era.
Sky confirmed its purchase of ITV's broadcast network arm (not ITV Studios) for £1.6 billion, down from an earlier £2 billion valuation.
Marina Hyde noted that almost all stage plays lose money, but the rare hits can print money indefinitely — citing Andrew Lloyd Webber as the ultimate example.
Madonna ran six A-list actresses through a gruelling boot camp — including Florence Pugh and Julia Garner — only for the project to collapse when Universal refused to fund the scale she demanded. Her offer to move the shoot to Serbia was met with Universal's verdict: we don't believe you'd last four days.
A performer writing, directing, and starring in their own story creates an impossible dynamic. The control that makes Madonna extraordinary is exactly what makes her the wrong person to oversee a film about herself.
The BBC aired QR codes during the World Cup asking viewers to sign up for TV licences at half-time. Marina Hyde's verdict: the sign-up numbers are so close to zero they can't be meaningfully charted.
The UK needs a new Prime Minister, James Bond, and Doctor Who simultaneously. Richard Osman's verdict: Kathy Burke for the full triple, Danny Dyer to steady the transitional period, and David Tennant as the most credible all-rounder.
TV production companies use third-party firms and DBS checks to vet talent's social media, but failures keep happening. Netflix's Emilia Perez Oscar campaign was derailed by missed posts from lead actress Carla Sofia Gascon — and it cost them everything.
Peter Mandelson's Epstein connection was sufficiently public that he would have failed BBC social media vetting and never appeared on The Apprentice. He got the ambassador's job anyway.
The Forrest Gump sequel script landed on Paramount's desk on September 10, 2001. Tom Hanks, Robert Zemeckis and Eric Roth collectively agreed the next morning that a tragicomedy about a simple man stumbling through American history had no meaning anymore.
Studios sometimes greenlight failing productions because they've already spent too much to walk away — the classic sunk cost trap. But Marina Hyde argues you should always pull out before the cameras roll.
In the mid-1990s China created its own rival cartoon to Tom and Jerry called 'The Blue Mouse and the Big-Faced Cat'. It never came close to matching the original, proving Tom and Jerry's timeless global appeal.
After a 2013 meme compared Xi Jinping to Winnie the Pooh following his White House meeting with Obama, the character became one of the most comprehensively banned things in China. Images, films, and merchandise — all gone.
In 'Gump and Co.', Forrest Gump invents New Coke, meets the real Tom Hanks on set while he's filming Big, causes the fall of the Berlin Wall, and captures Saddam Hussein during Gulf War I. It was greenlit by Paramount. It was never made.
Love Island ditched celebrities in 2015 and nearly doubled its US audience two seasons in a row. The secret is long-form formats that make it impossible for contestants to hide — ordinary people reveal themselves, and audiences get a never-ending social ecosystem around every episode.
Movie stars hand audiences a stone tablet and disappear. Reality stars are always on — they message fans, react in real time, monetise daily, and can't edit themselves on camera. The audience wants permanent drama, candour, and retail opportunities, and Hollywood simply doesn't offer that.
Meta's Ray-Ban glasses can film, live-stream, and — combined with facial recognition — identify strangers on the street in seconds. The privacy indicator light can be covered for $100. Kylie Jenner makes them look desirable, but the law is miles behind, and the consequences will be borne by everyone except Meta.
Tom and Jerry has been a fixture of Chinese state television since 1991, spawning a massive gaming franchise with 100 million users. China's own rival cartoon — The Blue Mouse and the Big-Faced Cat — never came close to matching it.
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- Society & Culture 30%
- Business 27%
- TV & Film 16%
- Technology 11%
- News 8%
- Arts 5%
- Music 3%
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