Yesterday, Apple TV+ announced a long-term deal with a U.S. professional league. No, it wasn’t the NFL. Instead, Major League Soccer and the streaming service announced a 10-year deal, reportedly worth $2.5B, which will see Apple emerge as the primary distribution source fot the entire league schedule, plus additional games from Leagues Cup and MLS … Read more
Yesterday’s second “episode” of the January 6 insurrection hearing mini-series was relocated to daytime, lest our elected officials risk competing against both the NBA Finals and FOX News (Nice win, by the way, Warriors). And in a nod that was far more a clear strategic acknowledgement that a steady audience of three million viewers that … Read more
Perhaps the only chasm separating factions of society that’s deeper than the political schism that will be on display twice this week with the next installments of the latest hit TV mini-series, the January 6 committee hearings, may be the schism of what will actually get someone into a movie theatre these days. Fresh off … Read more
CBS-and, of course, Paramount+00will be in throwback mode tonight, dedicating the majority of Sunday primetime to New York-based live television and a celebration of live theatre. For the 75th time, and the 55th year on TV, the Tony Awards will be handed out. Much of America won’t care. The Tonys are the T is EGOT, … Read more
Buried way down the media news ticker on Thursday in the wake of the shakeup that saw Peter Rice depart Disney was the allegedly more amicable parting of the ways of Sony Pictures Television Studios and its head, Jeff Frost. After a 15-year tenure that saw Frost rise from a business affairs lead to head … Read more
One of the most well-liked and successful media executives anywhere in the world, Peter Rice of Disney, was dismissed–no, the accurate word is FIRED–yesterday morning. As many outlets described it, Disney chairman Bob Chapek called Rice in and within seven minutes had severed the head of his content divisions, perhaps the crown jewel of the … Read more
With the entertainment industry slowly, even if via protest from a distinct plurarity of its membership, returning to a pre-pandemic normalcy, nowhere is this concession to sanity more evident than in ths flurry of events that Academy members can take place in between now and July 12, when the nominations for the 74th Emmy Awards … Read more
If anything hasn’t become blatantly obvious to anyone who has read this space previously, I’m sort of a progressive curmudgeon. While I’m as open and embracing of technological innovation to allow me to eat healthier, be more productive and live proactively, in the same breath I embrace throwbacks all but fogotten because, hey, I’m actually … Read more
Mucho news yesterday about the fact that the broadcast networks, as well as the usual suspects of cable news networks and streaming services will carry the opening night of the January 6th committee hearings in primetime on Thursday night. With rampant teasings of new revelations and video accompanying the announcements, the drumroll to the supposed … Read more
The Media Insights and Entertainment Conference for 2022 is in the books, and I’m told they exceeded their registration goal. I’m not quite sure how much our participation or any of us specifically had to do with that, but I can tell you about someone whose efforts certainly did matter. Frankly, were it not for … Read more