with us now on where starz fits within the incredibly crowded streaming landscape starz ceo jeffrey for joining us today. >> good morning, julia thanks for having me on. i'm excited to be here >> so, jeff, the last time you were on was april and we talked how starz was benefiting from an increase in viewership and engagement during the pandemic, since then that has continued to play out you've seen an increase in subscribers, over 9 million here in the u.s. to your direct to consumer app this better than expected growth this year do you think will continue or was a pull forward from what you might have had in 2021 should we not have had the pan defensemenic >> we think it will continue we saw significant growth leading into the pandemic. this was the plan all along. four years ago we looked to consumer behavior shifting and made the decision to pivot starz away from the linear business and focus on the ott business. this past quarter was an inflex point for our business the first time in the history of starz we had more ott than global linear subscribers and we think revenue will fo

plus, one of my favorite writers, neil gaiman, whose show "american gods," is in its third season on starzs look forward to talking to him but before we get to all that, house democrats called on the vice president to remove president trump through the 25th amendment, as they prepared to vote on a resolution to impeach the president. meanwhile, trump emerged for the first time since his twitter ban and refused to take any responsibility at all for inciting a violent riot at the capitol. for more on this, it's time for "a closer look." ♪ the house is preparing to impeach trump for inciting an insurrection, which would make him the only president ever to be impeached twice he'll also be the only president who lost the popular vote the first time and re-election the second time, in addition to being impeached. a record number of americans went to the polls to boot him from office, and his job approval is now down to 33%. his name will be etched in the congressional record and in history books forever as a seditionist, an aspiring tyrant and the worst, most dangerous president we've ever had h

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