It takes quite a bit to stand out in the ever-polarized world of what loosely qualifies as news these days, and that’s all the more true in the non-linear realm. Hence the launch earlier this week of yet another platform hoping to glean a few more pennies a day out of addicts like moi couldn’t … Read more
Time was a sure way for anyone to ingratiate themselves into practically anyone’s good graces was to have an association with Oprah Winfrey. Her absolute domination of afternoon television for a quarter-century not only made her a billionaire, but it also allowed her to put her imprenteur on practically anyone or anything she happened to … Read more
On a day when it was announced that the new blood that has infused Paramount won’t be asking at least 1000 of their employees to continue showing up to work past Halloween we also learned the identities of two of them. We kind of expected CBS EVENING NEWS co-anchor John Dickerson to be on such … Read more
I happen to be a fan of Bruce Springsteen, though probably nowhere near as much as the hipster bitch that I once shared an “executive” office with when I ran my college newspaper. For our all-night marathon sessions where we’d prepare the weekly edition she’d lug her quadrophronic stereo (yeah, it was THAT long ago) … Read more
The last time we mused about NOBODY WANTS THIS it had just premiered, somewhat inexplicably on Netflix, at least in my mind, It’s a 20th Television Production, which meant at some point Hulu likely had first dibs. It’s populated by veterans of HBO MAX and Prime Video originals, meaning that those platforms would have been … Read more
It’s been a busy week for us and our Venn diagram of interests, which often separates sports into a separate bucket. More often than not, that often provides us a welcome distraction from more troubling issues or a celebration of how much sports matters to media these days. Yesterday, neither was the case by a … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, DoubleOvertime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional essays on business and technology. The World Series opens tomorrow night outside the United States for only the second time in history when the Los Angeles Dodgers cross the border to … Read more
You may have already concluded that I’ve been particularly hard on one David Zaslav in these musings. The fact that pretty much his entire tenure as head honcho at Warner Brothers Discovery has essentially correlated with the existence of this space has helped to make him a familiar target, and the sheer number of times … Read more
NOTE: This also appears today on our sister site, DoubleOvertime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts, plus occasional essays on business and technology. My love of NBA basketball began when I first became a fan–around the very same time the unsuccessful New York Knicks traded slow-footed veteran Walt Bellamy to … Read more
It was somehow apropos that CBS premiered not one but two new scripted procedurals on Friday night that not only was part of the premiere week they had promoted for almost six months straight but also in the same week when open enrollment on Medicare began. The numbers don’t lie–an overwhelming amount of those who … Read more