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The Problem with Jon Stewart cancellation highlights a problem for Apple’s content (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 352 points 1 year ago (26 children)

The reason for the shift? Stewart and Apple executives "had disagreements over some of the topics and guests," the sources said. Specifically, they claimed Stewart told staffers that Apple execs took issue with planned programming related to both China and artificial intelligence, and noted that with the 2024 US election coming up, there might have been additional opportunities for disagreement then.

Shows like this should have zero input from executives. If you are not willing to let the show have free rein, you don’t deserve to host the show.

Hopefully Jon Stewart does something else with less corporate oversight.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

HBO should make him an offer. Pull him over to chill with John Oliver again like the good old days.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

HBO? Ohh you mean MAX, the hip and cool skateboarding cousin that showed up to HBO's house in season 7 of the "HBO show" with the bodacious sunglasses and the backward hat.

Yeah, I'm sure that guy is jazzy and gnarly enough to support John Stewart.

Radical!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Haha I honestly forgot sometimes that the streaming platform is just MAX now. I work for a cable company and deal with customers who have HBO in their cable packages. It's such a habit to call it HBO still heh... and Lat Week Tonight does still technically air on HBO on TV. It's just the streaming episode goes up within 30 mins of the airing generally.

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