The Instant Gratification Network

The Instant Gratification Network

This week’s media bombshell was clearly Amazon swallowing MGM—for perspective, the price was roughly two-thirds of what they paid for Whole Foods, meaning an iconic Hollywood brand is inferior to organic cranberry tuna salad.  There’s a lot already written about how once again an arrogant tech company wants to impose its size and will on … Read more

100,000 Reasons To Have Faith

100,000 Reasons To Have Faith

Tonight marks the delayed fifth season premiere of the current iteration of THE $100,000 PYRAMID, my all-time favorite game show and one I had the pleasure of working on three different versions of,  (I should have been involved with a fourth, but as a teenaged game show geek I was deemed “too good for TV” … Read more

The Rigorous Honesty of Pets

The Rigorous Honesty of Pets

As a society, we’ve learned how to multitask and co-exist in environments that are now both work and personal.  This site will be no exception to this “new norm”.  We will frequently pivot from media musings to personal stories.  You will learn of my own journey, particularly since December 2019, when my life was changed … Read more

Comfort Food Platform?

Comfort Food Platform?

The 2021-22 broadcast network schedule (save for the CW at this writing) is out, and yet again just when we thought there could be a bottoming out of playing it safe we have reached new nadirs of complacency. For fall 2021 there will be exactly four completely new series on the “Big 4”. that will be … Read more