About this episode

Michael Schneider discusses the latest from upfronts week and Jem Aswad explores the music of 'Heated Rivalry' with key creatives.

On today’s episode, Variety’s Michael Schneider breaks down the last lap of upfronts week as Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix and YouTube grab the megaphone. And Variety music chief Jem Aswad goes deep on the music of “Heated Rivalry” in a session with showrunner Jacob Tierney, composer Peter Peter and music supervisor Scotty Taylor. It was recorded May 7 at Toronto’ s Departure Festival for music creatives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• upfronts

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