It was no secret that Netflix was going to be swinging an ax this week. Word began to trickle out over the weekend that what DEADLINE’s intrepid Nellie Andreeva, among others, reported just before dawn yesterday would be happening. The basics she covered in her introduction were stark but not unexpected: Netflix has initiated a … Read more
I’ve recently been helping a friend compose his memoir about our times with different divisions of a company called Metromedia that preceded our mutual times together at FOX. As part of the process I’ve been helping his much younger though curious writer with background which forced me to trigger memories of exactly what I did … Read more
While I’ve never not minded being seen as the answer man in many a conference or break room, I’ve always looked forward to the opportunity to learn from others in the process. Knowing what one doesn’t know is to me as much of a hallmark of a successful executive as any other quality. Judging by … Read more
I was once as much of an unapologetic Aaron Sorkin supporter as anyone. Between the riveting dialogue and seminal casting of A FEW GOOD MEN, the hypnotic walk-and-talk and almost idyllic version of the White House captured in THE WEST WING and the brilliantly sardonic and spot-on lens on TV journalism that was offered in … Read more
I actually don’t envy people who feel the need to get so worked up over something as relatively inconsequential as a television show. I grew up a game show geek myself/ I spent decades working with exceptionally talented people who create and produce them, and I will readily admit I’m still a viewer and a … Read more
Another day, another outrageously incendiary idea from our current administration. Apparently, our looksmaxxing Secretary of De–er, War–may have seen our recent music on the struggles his boss’ eponymous “network” has been having and seized the opportunity to sell him on a special that would seem to have at least have the potential to break triple … Read more
Next weekend at an overly priced neighborhood restaurant in Bayside, Queens a few dozen folks from my high school will reconvene for a milestone reunion. It was supposed to be a mashup of my graduating class and the one preceding it, but as it turned out it became heavily skewed toward the latter and the … Read more
I’ve held off on adding my own cent and a quarter on –not to mention LMFAOing at– the ludicrously minute audience that Trump TV has generated since it burst on the media landscape late last month as the way that its namesake could stick yet another mangled finger in the eye of all of those–ahem–fake … Read more
I’ve tried to do a lot of different things in recent years that I hadn’t even dared to attempt, some of them willingly. For a very brief period of time I was coerced into taking salsa lessons from a friend who seemed to get a lot of personal pleasure from it and thought it could … Read more
Regular readers might already be aware that I am a slave to numbers. Decades of working with them in companies that claim to use them for accountability and decision-making sort of ingrained that in my psyche for perpetuity. There was once a time when the media that covered and promoted them would regularly use them … Read more