Welcome back to Bingeworthy—a podcast about all things television, streaming, what we watch, and how we watch it. Currently, we’re in a new accelerated, oversaturated age of TV, the second era of streaming, and the epoch of #TooMuchContent. With pretty much every major media entity having its own streaming service PLUS, the TV attention economy is at its apex. It’s a war for your eyeballs and it’s not about to end soon.

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When it was announced that Quentin Tarantino would be lending his voice for the narration of the new Showtime series, “Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber,” people were rightfully surprised. Tarantino doesn’t just act or narrate random projects. You would imagine it would take a fair bit of convincing to make that happen. Well, according to co-showrunner Brian Koppelman, it was a bit more simple than that.

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While Showtime hasn’t been able to fully keep up with the likes of HBO in terms of overall quality of original programming or quantity, there are some serious bright spots on the premium network, including the long-running series, “Billions.” And because of that show’s popularity and awards recognition, it appears Showtime is ready to give “Billions” co-creators, Brian Koppelman and David Levien, another series about the business world to bring to the network, titled “Super Pumped.”

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According to Deadline, Brian Koppelman and David Levien are developing a new Showtime anthology series, “Super Pumped,” and the first season is expected to star none other than Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

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