One of the most fascinating developments of pandemic-era television has been the exponential growth of FAST channels, both in terms of adoption and relevance. While the majority of industry attention has been toward the holy war being waged by trillion-dollar tech and media companies with tentacles in SVOD and PVOD and eight and nine-figure investments … Read more
The entertainment world lost other comedy star yesterday, this one far too young and soon. Bob Saget, just 65, was found dead in an Orlando hotel room hours after he did a stand-up act. For who was arguably the quintessential sitcom dad for Gen Xers (and even fringe boomers like myself who couldn’t srop binge … Read more
Had a pretty lousy day of my own the other day. Thought I would actually Netflix and chill. Because I am at my core a slave to numbers, I thought I’d check out Netflix’s most-watched original movie of late, DON’T LOOK UP. Plus, I heard a lot of good things about it from my who … Read more
Yesterday President Biden delivered what most political pundits characterized as his most forceful and direct attack on Donald Trump since the 2020 presidential campaign, referring to him as a “defeated former president” time and time again during an emotional speech contextualizing and summarizing the events of the past 365 days since the 1/6/21 incident at … Read more
As the new year starts and the Warner Discovery merger moves toward completion current “business daddy” (God, I love John Oliver!) AT&T released some information yesterday touting how successful HBO was in 2021. For a service that already boasts the brilliance of such series as SUCCESSION, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM and yes, LAST WEEK WITH JOHN … Read more
The entertainment world has again lost a brilliant mind with a strong game show connection. Jay Wolpert may not have been as famous as Betty White, but he was an important part of my life and his story is one that deserves to be heard. Jay was a self-described nerdy kid from Brooklyn who became … Read more
As someone who has loved the music of Billy Joel since he was an angry young man, I can find inspiration in many of his lyrics and the many memories of being in person from numerous concerts of his I’ve attended in five different decades. One of his most controversial songs was SOMETIMES A FANTASY, … Read more
America is clearly at an impasse. –Literally half the Senate belongs to a political party as diametrically opposite of the other as at any point in their histories. — In 2021 per Nielsen, 52% of the combined total average viewership of the three most-viewed news and opinion cable networks belonged to MSNBC and CNN combined; … Read more
Since I’ve started this way of sharing myself with the world I’ve been brutally honest about what I believe I’ve had to endure historically and as of late. Sometimes my despair gets the better of me. My despair is literally an angstrom unit of a fraction of the level these people whose story I will … Read more
Well, here we are. 2022 at last. And damn you, 2021, did you HAVE to take the last survivor of the cast of THE GOLDEN GIRLS and THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW with you as you skulked out the back door in shame? If there is any solace in losing Betty White just a few … Read more