In 2022 HBO picked up nearly forty Emmy awards \u2014 many of which went to The White Lotus.\xa0That year also happened to be\xa0the Home Box Office's\xa050th birthday.\xa0John Koblin co-wrote the book\xa0It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO\xa0with\xa0Felix Gillette. Last winter, guest host\xa0Ilya Marritz\xa0spoke\xa0to\xa0Koblin, who covers the television industry for The New York Times, about how the network came to be a critical darling, and\xa0HBO's fraught future under its new owner, Discovery+.\xa0
\nThis is a segment from our December 9, 2022 show,\xa0Still Watching?.