Like so many of you who apparently weren’t Jonesing to the celebration of whim and oligarchy that took place in frigid Washington, D.C. yesterday, a distraction was more needed than usual. Fortunately some astute folks at Peacock apparently foresaw that, or simply wanted to take advantage of a winter holiday weekend to showcase their latest … Read more
Depending upon when you’re reading this, we are either a scant few hours away from or a scant few hours into the second coming of President Donald J. Trump. No, I’m not thrilled about it either. When he defiantly removed his mask after battling COVID in the fall of 2020 at a time when more … Read more
I’m kinda hoping you may be a newcomer to these musings this morning because, if I’m to believe the self-reported statistics I’m being inundated with, there’s a heapin’ helpin’ of y’all who have one less online destination to wile away some of your Sunday morning with. CBS NEWS’ Caitlin Yilek was one of the many … Read more
At a time when any shred of good news is like manna from heaven, leave it to the cultural zeitgeist experts at Apple TV+ to provide it by dropping the premiere of a second season of SEVERANCE. It’s been almost three years since its subscribers first got a glimpse of it and for its rabid … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, www.TheDoubleOvertime.com. Please visit it regularly for extended coverage of sports of all sorts plus articles on technology. The Good Lord timed Bob Uecker’s demise as ideally as possible if one has to accept its inevitability–in the dead of winter and after one last title celebration, with … Read more
I’ll start out by saying that I’m anything but a fan of Tim Allen’s. I never did get his standup act and I was not a viewer of HOME IMPROVEMENT, his breakthrough sitcom that eclipsed even ROSEANNE as the number one half-hour on network television for a good part of the early ’90s. And the … Read more
Seems that no matter how much or how little they may be pursuing it, the kind folks at Comcast can’t keep their media properties out of the news cycle. Just this week alone two of the problem children that were recently lumped into their stock play pursuit know for the time being as SpinCo have … Read more
Two struggling news entities made headlines yesterday. One’s struggling with ratings among old men in general as well as credibility, one with challenges to their credibility and a couple of lawsuits from one particularly thin-skinned old man. While you may not remember Mighty Mouse, I’m pretty sure they do. Maybe you saw his most recent … Read more
I sometimes wonder if the struggles that so many streaming services seem to have in gaining traction may be due in no small part to a seeming obsession with the generation in charge to do things differently than the dinosaurs who have linear services did–or even do. These companies wouldn’t be in the position to … Read more
MEMO TO: THE HONORABLE (!) KAREN BASS FR: STEVE LEBLANG, MEDIA CONSULTANT RE: MEDIA TRAINING Hi again, Madame Mayor. Yes, again. Our paths have crossed before. When you were running for Diane Watson’s vacated Congressional seat in 2010 you and your handlers made it a point to knock on every door on my block in … Read more