<story><title>Apple TV Was Making a Show About Gawker. Then Tim Cook Found Out</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/business/media/apple-gawker-tim-cook.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>herbstein</author><text>&amp;gt; Like Amazon, even like two good shows would be an enormous accomplishment&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;ve, imo, already gone one amazing show in &amp;#x27;Ted Lasso&amp;#x27;. The premise doesn&amp;#x27;t sound like it should work. A comedy based on old American soccer commercials? But somehow it really, really works.</text></item><item><author>an_opabinia</author><text>&amp;gt; Another company, Anonymous Content, bought the option to develop a New Yorker article about Gawker, a person familiar with the deal said. (The New Yorker article was written by Jeffrey Toobin, a frequent target of Gawker.)&lt;p&gt;That is really fucking funny.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Apple TV+, which started a year ago, has struggled to find its feet in a climate in which its top creative executives, Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg, appear to be constantly trying to guess what Mr. Cook and Mr. Cue might like, or might object to.&lt;p&gt;Pretty much everyone expected Apple to make terrible TV. Like Amazon, even like two good shows would be an enormous accomplishment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Austin_Conlon</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t stress enough how high quality the writing, acting, and character development is in Ted Lasso, and you don&amp;#x27;t need to care about sports going into it. What a shame that it doesn&amp;#x27;t have the fame of something like The Queen&amp;#x27;s Gambit without the reach of Netflix.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple TV Was Making a Show About Gawker. Then Tim Cook Found Out</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/business/media/apple-gawker-tim-cook.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>herbstein</author><text>&amp;gt; Like Amazon, even like two good shows would be an enormous accomplishment&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;ve, imo, already gone one amazing show in &amp;#x27;Ted Lasso&amp;#x27;. The premise doesn&amp;#x27;t sound like it should work. A comedy based on old American soccer commercials? But somehow it really, really works.</text></item><item><author>an_opabinia</author><text>&amp;gt; Another company, Anonymous Content, bought the option to develop a New Yorker article about Gawker, a person familiar with the deal said. (The New Yorker article was written by Jeffrey Toobin, a frequent target of Gawker.)&lt;p&gt;That is really fucking funny.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Apple TV+, which started a year ago, has struggled to find its feet in a climate in which its top creative executives, Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg, appear to be constantly trying to guess what Mr. Cook and Mr. Cue might like, or might object to.&lt;p&gt;Pretty much everyone expected Apple to make terrible TV. Like Amazon, even like two good shows would be an enormous accomplishment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>Ted Lasso&amp;#x2F;Morning Show&amp;#x2F;Mythic Quest are easily my favorite shows this year.</text></comment>