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Scrubs Reopens the Divorce File, Hollywood Markets Movies Before the Glue Dries

A sitcom revival offers answers about J.D. and Elliot, while eight American films seek partners during editing.

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Scrubs Explains a Divorce, Then Books the Couple for Another Appointment

ABC’s Scrubs revival uses Episode 207, “My Story,” to explain what led to the divorce of J.D., played by Zach Braff, and Elliot, played by Sarah Chalke. The episode also offers a glimpse of what a romantic reconciliation might look like, giving fans of the long-running comedy both an answer and another reason to keep watching. It is a neat piece of revival medicine: first reopen an old wound, then offer hope that the next appointment might make it better. The original relationship has enough history to sustain a major reveal, while the possibility of a reunion gives that history a future on the schedule. The couple does not need to get back together immediately to keep viewers invested. It just needs to make the waiting room interesting. For a series returning to familiar characters, the trick is to make their time away matter without making them unrecognizable. A divorce changes the stakes of a reunion, even if the show’s affection for its characters remains intact. Fans finally get some overdue information, but the show is not discharging their feelings quite yet. Sacred Heart can close a chart and still find room for a follow-up.

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Eight Unfinished Films Attend a Festival Where the Networking Is Already in Final Cut

Eight independent films in the final stages of editing have been selected for U.S. in Progress, a co-production forum at the Tauron American Film Festival in Wrocław, Poland. The projects include “Kate Might Die,” directed by Mercedes Bryce Morgan, with a cast including Awkwafina, Anthony Ramos, Ken Jeong and Zosia Mamet. “Outside of Cleveland,” starring Alex Wolff, is also among the selections. The forum brings American projects to an international industry event before the films are finished. That puts filmmakers and possible partners in the same room while there is still work to do, rather than waiting until the credits have been polished and everyone has agreed where the comma goes. For independent producers, making a movie and getting it into the world are separate challenges. A project with recognizable performers can still benefit from connections beyond the editing room, especially when a festival gathers people interested in co-production. The selection also gives the films a public identity before audiences can see the finished versions. The arrangement has a pleasing Hollywood logic: the picture may still be taking shape, but the conversation about its future is ready for its premiere. The final cut can follow once the introductions are complete.

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Old Movies Find New Fans, and a Network Gives Questioning Its Own Commendation

Griffin Dunne welcomes renewed interest in his work, while Sky News backs correspondent James Matthews.

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Griffin Dunne Discovers That Halloween Has Become His Unpaid Publicist

Griffin Dunne says he is glad to see renewed interest in “Practical Magic” and “An American Werewolf in London.” The director of the 1998 witchy romance told Variety that conversation about “Practical Magic” began gaining steam perhaps a decade ago, particularly around Halloween, and that he noticed memes about its “midnight margaritas.” A film’s second life can arrive without a conventional opening weekend. Fans share a favorite moment, seasonal viewing becomes a habit, and work that once had a fixed release date finds a recurring place in the calendar. Dunne’s own assessment of his career, “I seem to be the king of lapsed love,” gives the revival a suitably affectionate title. The economics of nostalgia are less tidy than a studio schedule. A movie cannot simply order viewers to make it an October ritual. It needs an audience willing to keep bringing it back, one reference and recommendation at a time. That makes the popularity gratifying for its creators and wonderfully inconvenient for anyone trying to predict a film’s entire future from its first appearance. Dunne gets the pleasure of watching old work reach new people. Halloween gets another excuse to put margaritas on the agenda.

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Sky News Praises Its Correspondent for Doing the Job Listed on His Badge

Sky News says it is proud of U.S. correspondent James Matthews after his heated exchange with newly elected Senator Abdul El-Sayed. The network told Variety that Matthews “was doing his job.” Matthews also commented on the confrontation, saying he had not had a chance to ask the politician questions directly before El-Sayed made a statement. A network defending a correspondent’s work is not unusual, but the need to make a public declaration gives an ordinary professional duty the feel of a special announcement. The press office has essentially had to remind everyone that asking public officials questions is part of the package, not an optional upgrade. The dispute also illustrates how quickly an encounter involving a reporter and a politician can become a story about the encounter itself. The journalist’s account, the politician’s response and the employer’s statement all compete for attention alongside the original exchange. A short clip may travel easily, while the circumstances around it require more than a few seconds. For a television newsroom, the response is a defense of its correspondent. For everyone else, it is another reminder that a question in public life can become content before anyone has finished answering it.

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A Festival Honors a Career While Reddit Sells a Place Beside the Answers

Pamela Anderson receives a Torino award, and Reddit tests paid posts in search results.

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Pamela Anderson Gets a Lifetime Award, the Industry’s Favorite Way to Announce It Has Been Paying Attention

Pamela Anderson will receive a lifetime achievement award at Italy’s Torino Film Festival and introduce a special screening of Gia Coppola’s “The Last Showgirl.” The festival, run by Italy’s National Film Museum, is known for attention to young directors and independent cinema. The pairing puts an established performer and a recent film in front of an audience that also follows emerging work. A lifetime award looks backward by definition, but the screening gives the occasion a more immediate focus: a performance and a movie that viewers can discuss now, not just a collection of old clips. Festivals are good at turning recognition into an event. The stage, the screening and the ceremony can invite audiences to reconsider a career while giving the festival a prominent guest. There is an elegant exchange involved: the honoree brings a history, and the organizers provide a room in which that history receives a fresh introduction. Hollywood has a particular fondness for rediscovery, preferably with a program note and a photographer nearby. Here, the honor need not settle every argument about a career. It simply gives Anderson and “The Last Showgirl” an audience together, while the lifetime trophy makes sure nobody mistakes the evening for a casual matinee.

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Reddit Tests Search Ads, Letting Brands Join the Conversation One Invoice at a Time

Reddit is testing paid posts in search results with a select group of eligible advertisers, the company said in a November 3 blog post. The ads use existing targeting tools to surface relevant product recommendations. Reddit’s examples include coffee products for an “espresso station” search and office equipment for a home-office query. The idea brings advertising closer to a moment when a user is actively looking for an answer. It also puts a brand’s paid placement near the community discussions that make Reddit useful to people seeking opinions from other users. A search for a better desk can now introduce both the wisdom of strangers and the purchasing ambitions of an advertiser. For brands, the appeal is obvious: a query can reveal what someone is interested in before the marketing team has finished its presentation about intent. For users, the practical question is how clearly a paid result sits alongside the recommendations they came to find. The test is limited, not a declaration that every search result will become an ad. Still, it captures an old internet bargain in a new spot: the platform helps people find answers, and the sponsor pays to be close enough to raise its hand.

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Chicago Fire Schedules a Farewell, DC Sends Constantine Into Development Limbo

Joe Miñoso exits the NBC drama at its 300th episode, while Francis Galluppi is tapped for a DC script.

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Cruz Leaves Chicago Fire, Having Waited for the Milestone Cake

Joe Miñoso’s Firefighter Josef “Joe” Cruz exits NBC’s “Chicago Fire” in its 300th episode, Season 15’s “Three Hundred.” Miñoso has played Cruz since the first season, making the installment both a round-number celebration and a farewell to a familiar member of the ensemble. A long-running drama has to balance the comfort of recurring characters with the reality that cast members eventually leave. A milestone episode offers a convenient stage for that work: the show can acknowledge its own history while moving a character out of it. In this case, the anniversary and the departure arrive in the same package, saving the publicity department from ordering two cakes. The event also gives longtime viewers a reason to think about how much of a series can accumulate around one role. Cruz has been part of the show since its beginning, so his exit changes the makeup of a workplace that audiences have visited for years. The episode is not just another emergency on the schedule; it marks a change in the team. Network television loves a number big enough to print on a banner. It loves a familiar face even more. At episode 300, “Chicago Fire” gets to celebrate both, just as one of them heads for the door.

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Constantine Meets His Latest Supernatural Threat: Very Early Development

DC Studios has tapped Francis Galluppi to write a John Constantine movie, sources told Deadline. The project is in very early development, with no other attachments yet, and DC declined to comment. Galluppi’s credits include “Evil Dead Wrath.” The report comes as “Clayface” continues its theatrical run with more than $90 million worldwide. The two projects are at very different stages: one is collecting box-office receipts, while the other has a writer and a long road between a development announcement and a finished film. That is familiar territory for a studio managing a collection of comic-book characters. A recognizable name can attract attention as soon as a project is reported, even though many creative and business decisions remain ahead. Fans can start imagining a version of Constantine while the people making it are still at the beginning of the work. For a character associated with occult trouble and questionable bargains, the studio process supplies its own kind of suspense. There is a writer at the table, but no reason yet to treat the rest of the production as settled. Constantine has encountered demons before. For now, his next adventure is a script, a set of unanswered questions and the mysterious realm known as the development slate.

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Instagram Offers a One-Time Welcome, Netflix Promises a Better Kind of Binge

Long-form creators get a new courtship, while Netflix introduces AI-assisted discovery.

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Instagram Courts Long Videos With Checks That Do Not Promise a Sequel

Instagram is using one-off payouts and premium placements to attract creators who make longer videos, according to Social Media Today. The incentives are meant to compensate for the platform’s lack of a payout system as robust as YouTube’s. The pitch addresses a practical problem for creators: making longer work can take time and money, while an individual incentive does not necessarily establish a reliable stream of income. A prominent placement can put a video in front of viewers, and a one-time payment can make a particular project easier to undertake. Neither is automatically the same thing as a continuing arrangement. Platforms compete for creators as well as audiences, and the terms of that competition affect where people choose to publish. YouTube’s established system gives Instagram a comparison point, while Instagram’s offer puts immediate rewards and visibility at the center of the invitation. There is a useful tension in asking for long-form commitment with a short-form payment promise. A creator may welcome the check and still wonder what happens after the featured placement ends. The platform gets a longer video to show its audience; the person making it gets to consider whether the welcome is the beginning of a relationship or a very nice single date.

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Netflix Wants Quality Viewing, and an AI Tool Has Been Asked to Find It

Netflix is emphasizing the quality of its viewership as it competes with YouTube’s commanding share of living-room TV viewing, Tubefilter reports. Its AI Discover recommendation tool could help the company surface shows and encourage the kind of engagement it values, though the connection is presented as an assessment rather than a guaranteed result. The distinction gives Netflix a way to talk about competition beyond the raw size of the audience. A streaming service can argue that a viewer’s relationship with its programming matters as well as the number of minutes on the screen. Meanwhile, discovery tools are meant to help people find something worth watching among a very large catalog. For creators, visibility inside that catalog can matter as much as the existence of a title. A recommendation interface is not simply a polite guide at the door; it also decides which doors are easiest to notice. Viewers will know whether it helps by the simple test of finding a program they actually want to watch. The company’s language makes quality sound like a velvet rope for attention. The tool’s task is more practical: get a person past the rows of choices and into a show before the evening becomes a documentary about browsing.

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Spider-Man Rescues a Quarter, Dylan and the Pope Exchange Reading Material

Sony Pictures reports a large profit increase, and the American songwriter makes a brief Vatican visit.

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Spider-Man Delivers Sony a Blockbuster Quarter, No Spreadsheet Costume Required

Sony Pictures Entertainment reported a sharp second-quarter profit increase, with operating income of $581 million for the three months ended September 30. Deadline attributed the result largely to the box-office success of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day.” The figure was up 527% from $93 million in the comparable period a year earlier. That is the kind of change a studio can put near the top of an earnings presentation without needing a special effect. A successful theatrical release can make a substantial difference to a quarter, and a familiar character gives the result an easily recognizable face. The hero gets the poster; the finance department gets a particularly satisfying comparison with last year. The same result also shows why individual releases matter so much to a film business. A strong quarter tied largely to one hit is not a promise that every future quarter will look the same. Timing and the performance of the release slate can move the numbers around. For creators and executives, the result is another demonstration of the commercial power of an established franchise. For the studio’s accountants, it is a rare moment when the friendly neighborhood hero has done something even more appealing than saving the day: made the year-over-year column look heroic.

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Dylan Visits the Pope, and Both Leave With a Better Gift Than a Playlist Link

Bob Dylan visited Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican during a break between concert dates in Italy. The Vatican described the meeting between the American songwriter and the American pope as brief. Leo gave Dylan a rosary, and Dylan presented the pope with his autobiography, “Chronicles: Volume One.” The encounter also had a literary connection. In his 2026 book, Leo quoted from “Go Away You Bomb,” an unpublished protest song Dylan wrote in 1963. That detail links the meeting to work from more than six decades earlier, even though the two men met in a very different setting from the one in which the song was written. Celebrity visits to the Vatican tend to produce a formal photograph and a careful record of the gifts. This one supplied a particularly compact exchange: a memoir in one direction, a rosary in the other. Neither object requires a press conference to explain why its giver might have chosen it. Dylan’s songs have traveled well beyond concert halls, and the pope’s quotation offers one example of that reach. The meeting itself was short, but the bibliography was generous. Somewhere between the tour schedule and the Vatican calendar, two Americans found time to trade objects with considerably longer shelf lives than the visit.

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Snap Gets More Revenue Than Momentum, a Club Kid Gets a Bedtime

Snap reports modest user growth, and Jordan Firstman turns a nightlife premise toward family.

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Snap’s Revenue Rises While Daily Growth Takes a Long Pause

Snap reported higher revenue in its third quarter and a modest increase in Snapchat users, while daily active growth stalled across nearly every market, according to Social Media Today. The figures present two different pictures of the business: more revenue on one side, and slower momentum in a measure of daily use on the other. For a social platform, daily habits matter because they shape the audience creators and advertisers can reach. Revenue growth is welcome, but it does not automatically mean that the number of people opening the app each day is expanding at the same pace. The company has to maintain the appeal of an established service while also finding ways to grow its business. Creators face their own version of that calculation. An audience can remain valuable without growing rapidly, but the size and regularity of that audience influence how much attention a post can earn. Brands looking at the platform have reason to consider both the commercial results and the pattern of use. Snapchat made disappearing messages a defining feature. Its quarterly results suggest a less theatrical challenge: keeping growth visible when people already have plenty of other places to spend a few minutes on their phones.

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Jordan Firstman Gives a Party Promoter the One Guest Who Cannot Be Sent Home

Jordan Firstman’s new film follows a gay party promoter whose life changes when he discovers he has a young son. Firstman, who knows the Club Kid world firsthand, told NPR that the relationship works in both directions: Arlo teaches Peter to grow up, while Peter teaches Arlo to be a kid. The premise brings nightlife and parenthood into the same story without requiring either to be treated as a simple moral lesson. A person accustomed to organizing a party must also negotiate a relationship that lasts well beyond the end of the night. The child, in turn, meets an adult whose idea of growing up may not look like a conventional schedule. Firstman’s account of partying too much gives the film an autobiographical point of contact, even though the reported premise is a fictional story about Peter and Arlo. Personal experience can supply a setting and a sensibility without making every detail of a character’s life a statement about the filmmaker. The comedy is in the collision of calendars. A party promoter knows how to manage a guest list; a parent discovers that one important guest is there for breakfast too. The film’s central bargain lets both of them learn something before anyone agrees on bedtime.

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Election Streams Find a Crowd, YouTube Code Finds Another Social Feed

Livestream audiences surged during the midterms, and Android app references hint at an experimental experience.

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Election Night Streams Grow Up, Bringing Their Chats to the Results Desk

Election-related broadcasts across YouTube, Twitch, Kick and Rumble attracted a record midterm audience for streamers on November 3, according to Streams Charts data reported by Tubefilter. The broadcasts collectively reached 3.4 million concurrent viewers across roughly 3,400 channels, and traffic was more than four times higher than during the previous midterms in 2022. The increase shows that live political coverage is drawing audiences across a range of platforms, not just on traditional television. Streamers bring their own styles and communities to an event that already has a well-established broadcast format. A familiar election map may now compete for attention with a host, a webcam and a fast-moving chat. The formats offer different kinds of company. A television analyst can guide viewers through results on a large display; a livestream can combine commentary with an audience reacting in real time. Neither a growing audience nor an energetic chat, by itself, says how much information any particular viewer received. For creators, the audience numbers make election night a major live event. For viewers, the expanding menu means the results can arrive with a variety of hosts and levels of conversational noise. Democracy has always had plenty of opinions. Now they also have a comment column.

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YouTube’s Code Hints at Tamba, Because One Feed Is Apparently Not Enough Feeds

Code in a recent version of YouTube’s Android app contains references to an entity called Tamba, according to Android Authority’s findings reported by Tubefilter. The references include a logo and icons with a hand-drawn look. They are tied to a package called “com.google.android.youtube.sandbox,” suggesting an experience separate from the main YouTube app. The findings have similarities to Instagram-style social features, but code references do not establish that a public product will launch or what its final form would be. The sandbox label is a clue about where the assets sit, not a release date or a promise to creators. Even an experiment can reveal the kinds of interfaces a platform is considering. YouTube is best known for video, while social features can give people more ways to interact around the work they watch. For a creator, an additional format might eventually offer another way to reach an audience, or simply another place requiring attention. For now, the most solid discovery is a collection of assets and a name. The internet, naturally, has already begun imagining the whole neighborhood from a glimpse of the front door. Tamba may become something more, but its current audience consists largely of people reading the code.

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Software Finds Creators, a Gym Schedules Spontaneity and Delivery Seeks Scale

OVO scouts talent, Josh Peck works an unscripted shift, and DoorDash’s Instacart bid prompts debate.

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OVO Lets Software Find the Talent Before a Former Influencer Says Hello

OVO Talent uses proprietary software to scout 75,000 to 80,000 creators each month, then assigns the creators it signs to talent managers who are former influencers. Founder and CEO Alex Gunnarsson says the combination of technology and firsthand creator experience is central to the firm’s approach. The software gives the company a way to search a large field, while the managers bring experience of working on the other side of the relationship. Scouting a creator and representing one are different tasks, and OVO’s model puts a different tool in charge of each. It is a fitting arrangement for an industry that sells personal connection at industrial scale. A creator can be discovered through a broad software search and then work with someone who understands the job from experience. The spreadsheet opens the door; a person who has lived through the posting schedule comes in to discuss what happens next.

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Planet Fitness Plans an Unscripted Shift, Carefully Leaving Room for Josh Peck

Planet Fitness had actor Josh Peck work a shift at its Park Slope club in Brooklyn for a social campaign. The brand used a loose outline of beats rather than a script, and its social team says that lack of direction is deliberate across the talent it works with. The approach gives a performer room to react while still putting the activity inside a planned campaign. The gym, the shift and the social video are organized; the exact words are not. It is spontaneity with a call time, a location and a sponsor waiting for the result. For brands, the appeal is content that feels less polished than a conventional commercial. For performers, the loose format offers more room to use their own style. The outline does not disappear, but it can stay in the background while Peck does the visible work. Authenticity, it turns out, still benefits from knowing which club to visit.

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DoorDash’s Instacart Bid Offers Scale, With a Side of Lock-In Worries

DoorDash’s bid for Instacart could accelerate consolidation in commerce media, according to Digiday’s assessment of the arguments for and against the deal. The potential benefits include greater scale, while the risks include higher prices and lock-in for shoppers, brands and partners. Commerce media links shopping platforms with advertising, giving brands a chance to reach people as they look for products. A larger combined operation could make that reach easier to buy. It could also leave businesses with fewer alternatives if more of the available audience sits behind one commercial relationship. Those are competing possibilities, not established outcomes of a completed deal. The case for scale sounds especially attractive when the shopping cart is already full; the concern about lock-in begins when someone asks how many other carts are available. For advertisers, the fine print may matter as much as the size of the aisle.

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Publishers Find Revenue, Ad Buyers Seek Proof and a Lion Gets a Gracious Handoff

A brief tour of media earnings, ChatGPT advertising, AI-written briefs and the next Aslan.

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Publishers Grow Revenue While Traffic Wanders Off, Giving the Spreadsheet a Complicated Smile

The New York Times, People Inc., News Corp and Reuters report revenue growth despite traffic declines and disruption from AI, according to Digiday. The assessment also points to tougher comparisons ahead. A growing revenue line gives publishers room to invest, but it does not erase the challenge of reaching audiences as traffic patterns change. The two measures can move in different directions without either becoming irrelevant. A publisher may have a strong quarter and still need a plan for the next one. The spreadsheet is smiling, but the audience chart has asked for a separate meeting.

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ChatGPT Ads Attract Brands, Then Meet the Spreadsheet Asking About Sales

Six thousand brands have tried ChatGPT’s ad format, according to Digiday, but conversion remains a challenge. OpenAI’s ambitious advertising revenue targets depend on demand, measurement and monetization. The pitch puts a brand near a conversation, where a user may be considering a purchase. Advertisers still need a way to assess whether attention leads to action and whether the spending is worthwhile. A lively exchange can make a promising sales environment, but the budget meeting wants more than a pleasant conversation. It would also like to know what happened after the customer left the chat.

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AI Makes the Creative Brief Longer, a Bold Interpretation of the Word Brief

Agencies and marketers increasingly use AI tools to create media and creative briefs, and Digiday reports concern that overuse is contributing to bloated documents. The trend raises a practical question for teams trying to turn instructions into a campaign. A useful brief gives people a clear direction. Extra paragraphs can make a document look thorough without making the central decision any easier. Automation may help produce the material quickly, but someone still has to decide what belongs in it. The machine can keep writing; the creative team needs permission to stop reading.

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Neeson Welcomes Streep as Aslan, Denying Hollywood Its Usual Recasting Feud

Liam Neeson, who voiced Aslan in Disney’s “Chronicles of Narnia” films from 2005 to 2010, has welcomed Meryl Streep taking the role in Greta Gerwig’s adaptation. His verdict, reported by Deadline, was “Nobody better.” A familiar character changing performers can invite comparisons, especially when audiences have a strong memory of the earlier version. Neeson’s response gives the handoff a notably friendly beginning. Instead of a contest over who owns the lion, the previous voice has offered its approval. Narnia gets a new Aslan, and the wardrobe remains remarkably free of professional jealousy.

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