Amidst a somewhat tumultuous week for certain divisions of NBCUniversal (make sure you return that IPad, Ronna, not that you were around long enough to have it set up for you), some news came out of the Peacock camp that seemed to trumpet that they found the secret sauce to streaming success. Put a … Read more
Dan Schneider has basically spent almost his entire life within the vicinity of a soundstage. As a teen actor, he was part of the ensemble cast of the modestly successful ABC sitcom HEAD OF THE CLASS, where he portrayed, as Wikipedia described him, the overweight, wisecracking cynic Dennis Blunden , a computer whiz whose fields … Read more
I grew up as a heavy viewer, literally and figuratively, of NBC News. We lived in an area where the CBS over-the-air signal on Channel 2 was often snowy and grainy, so we only watched in prime time when there was a sitcom or drama we HAD to watch (God, my mom LOVED Steve McGarrett … Read more
The first scenes of the newly released documentary film STORMY features shots of a rather mundane home life of Stephanie Clifford and her young daughter in a tony home in the Dallas-area suburb of Forney, Texas. The daughter is helping her mom apply lip gloss, a dog is lying adoringly on a sofa, and we … Read more
On Friday I had a brief phone conversation with an executive who was responsible for hiring for an open position that I was fully qualified for and had been personally recommended to by a mutual business friend. A couple of weeks had passed since my friend told me to follow up by calling the hiring … Read more
So my former Sony colleague Mike Richards is back in the news cycle, courtesy of a PEOPLE Magazine “exclusive” released earlier this week and penned by the apropriately monickered Gillian Telling, who at last is telling Richards’ side of stories that have dominated the media news and yes, click-bait worlds pretty much since Richards took … Read more
Daytime broadcast network television, which at one time actually drove the profit margins of their companies in an era when they actually did make money, has deteriorated into little more than a vast wasteland of legacy formats and lots of news and news-adjacent content. In a world where timeshift viewing and catch-up streaming options proliferate, … Read more
Chances are you might not be aware of a new show that has helped its network both build and broaden its audience from what it inherited but also find a way to do so in a fiscally responsible manner. You might recall we had a pretty prolonged strike last year that dealt with the reality … Read more
Now, where were we? When I chose to take a break a bit more than a month ago, I was arguably at a low point even by my modest standards, and in hindsight it showed at every level. Even when people were doing something that had the chance to be right, more often that not … Read more
