We are just about halfway through the month that will end at just about the halfway point of the year that will just about end the first quarter of the 21st century. I realize there’s an awful lot of hedging in that statement, but I know my readership well enough to know that if there’s … Read more
I’m fairly sure Joan Vassos is a pretty decent woman. For the uninitated, PEOPLE’s Skyler Caruso profiled her last month: Meet The Golden Bachelorette’s leading lady! Joan Vassos has been named the star of the inaugural season of ABC’s female-led version of the senior dating show, exciting news that was revealed at the Disney Upfronts presentation in N.Y.C. … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, www.theDoubleOvertime.com. Please visit it regularly for extended coverage of sports and the media that covers it. This is the third time this year across our two sites that I’ve been motivated to offer a musing involving Caitlin Clark and women’s basketball. That alone should reinforce … Read more
It’s a pretty big week for whomever’s still left at Warner Brothers Discovery. Arguably their most anticipated series of the year, Season Two of HOUSE OF THE DRAGONS, will debut on Father’s Day night for the first of eight episodes that are hoping to extend the lifespan of the GAME OF THRONES franchise that led … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, www.TheDoubleOvertime.com Please visit it regularly for additional sports coverage. As this is being written, they’re warming up at Stade Roland Garros in Paris for the men’s final of the 2024 French Open. It’s actually a pretty decent match-up with some potentially historic implications, as CNN’s … Read more
So Pat Sajak’s tenure as emcee of WHEEL OF FORTUNE has indeed come to an end. Last night he bid farewell to the millions who still make watching the show a nightly habit, an event that received the kind of coverage normally reserved for the passing of a world leader. Virtually every major media outlet … Read more
It hasn’t exactly been a stellar year for Disney on any level so far, and there isn’t an MCU franchise coming to the theatres this summer to kickstart it. Judging by the ever-growing expectations and massive costs that have effectively doomed their most recent efforts to performances which the investment community has been left underwhelmed … Read more
It was yet another story of a change in management and direction of a struggling media company that VARIETY’s Ethan Shanfield authored yesterday, the kind that have become commonplace in recent years in an industry filled with underrealized expectations, splintering and the resulting necessity of truncation. This one offered an opportunistic twist for its rank … Read more
I have a particular affinity for anyone who works in movie or TV production, and not just the folks in front of the cameras. Some of the hardest-working people in any industry I’ve come across are those who labor intensively upon demand, work dawn till way past dusk under intense pressure almost every minute, and … Read more
Life seems to be an endless array of ironies at times. Of all the days I could have chosen to make a return to the Paramount lot that I love so much (thank you yet again, Uncle Tommy), it’s one that will follow a potentially monumental day for the company. By the time I get … Read more