Overview

• In a Letterboxd interview published Aug. 28, Tom Rothman said each episode contains a “kernel of brilliant, blinding truth” but declared that “everything else is horse s–t.”
• Rothman contended that studio leaders generally try to do the right thing and rejected the show’s suggestion of pervasive moral compromise among executives.
• He said he viewed the series with humor, noting he joked “Hi, everybody, I’m Seth Rogen!” during his CinemaCon presentation earlier this year.
• The Studio is an Apple TV+ comedy from Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg that follows a fictional studio boss and features numerous real-life filmmakers and actors playing themselves.
• The series earned 23 Emmy nominations, tying the single-year comedy record, and Apple renewed it for a second season in May.