I am in a bit more need than usual today, and I know enough about my “gold card” fans–you know, the ones who actually reach out to me with social media comments–that any time something regarding game shows is a musing, engagement tends to be optimal. So I’m quite sure that the pictures alone will … Read more
On days like this when I’m feeling especially despondent (honestly, I’m far too devastated from something that happened last night to even dogwhistle my way into some sort of explanation), I feel particularly aghast at what we consider to be newsworthy. This was an actual update from Business Insider’s Ryan Hogg that dropped yesterday : … Read more
Another day, another reality check for creatives who simply cannot understand why the less creative ,at least artistically, aren’t giving them what they believe is their right to be appreciated and, of course, adequately (in their minds) compensated. As well as an overly sympathetic online trade press that, for the most part, gives voice to … Read more
Whenever FX drops something anywhere the tentacles of its brand, now nearly three decades evolved, extends, I sit up and take notice. I have way too much history and fond memories of my association with their braintrust, many of whom are STILL winning awards and greenlighting history in a business that has accelerated firings and … Read more
And just like that….Yosemite Zas is back in the forefront of the background behind two concurrent stories that seem to frustrating and agitating the Hollywood elite and the most passionate supporters of them. All because our poor little half-a-billion-dollar-a year sheriff is simply being asked to do his job. When the theatrical movies you bank … Read more
I am often forced to chortle at some of the degree of consternation that many current media pundits eschew when they lament and chastise the degree of what they see as data manipulation by various streaming services in their attempts to make it seem like their platforms are having more success and impact than they … Read more
My in-house focus group of roommate and son spent Father’s Day weekend as they often do, this time without moi watching what they were convinced would be the weekend’s must-see event. Their review of THE FLASH, which is one of Warner Discovery’s summer theatrical tentpoles, was their usual “it was good”. They rarely waver from … Read more
Today is a holiday, the third official national celebration of Juneteenth, a day that commemorates , as our crutch Wikipedia describes: (T)he emancipation of enslaved African Americans. Deriving its name from combining June and nineteenth, it is celebrated on the anniversary of the order by Major General Gordon Granger proclaiming freedom for enslaved people in Texas on June 19, 1865 (two and a half years after … Read more
I admit I’ve got a shorter than usual fuse these days. I have barely seen the sun in perhaps the gloomiest June I’ve endured in Los Angeles since I relocated, and I don’t need to bore any of you yet again that my quest for something resembling a decent level of living has hit more … Read more
Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to have a wonderful dinner with a longtime colleague who is now a fairly successful scripted TV writer. We were in a celebratory mood because he told me that it was going to be announced that a second season of the series he was hired to write for … Read more