Media Musings

A fascinating bit of tenacious niggliness was dropped earlier this week by THE ANKLER’s Elaine Low that took a deep dive into what was trumpeted as a big win for striking creatives during the lost summer of 2023.  As trade media’s most unapologetic tennis lover framed and reminded her readers: When thousands of writers and … Read more

I’m an unapologetic fan of DEADLINE’s Nellie Andreeva; when I persist in giving her the adjective “intrepid”, it’s a compliment.  She’s been around long enough for me to have had a few conversations with her, both on and off the record, at the numerous FX parties that would regularly launch seasons of its original scripted … Read more

For as long as there have been moving pictures, there has been Technicolor.  It’s a process that dates back more than a century, as STUDIOBINDER.com’s Chris Leckmann lectured in an informative 2021 piece: Technicolor is a series of processes used to first produce color in motion pictures. From 1916 to 1932, the Technicolor company tinkered with … Read more

It was Lady Gaga Night on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, and after a week where Shane Gillis headlined in his undeniably polarizing manner, let’s just say the show needed her as much as she and her team that’s about to drop her latest album, MAYHEM, needed the show for its promotion.  While her body of work … Read more

I couldn’t help but get an overwhelming feeling of deja vu when I saw this announcement which, among others, VARIETY’s Todd Spengler dropped at the top of this past week: Pete Distad has a new gig after the shutdown of sports-streaming joint venture Venu Sports. Fox Corp. has hired Distad as CEO of the company’s … Read more

NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, Double Overtime.  Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional articles on technology. Two supposedly struggling “mainstream” networks somehow found a few spare shekels to reward a couple of their personalities yesterday.  In an era where their owners are literally … Read more

You’ll forgive me if there happen to be a few more typos that usual in this musing.  I’ve got some egg on my face and some of the yolk may at times drizzle into my eye. Like quite a number of eager reporters and experts who waited all day Monday eagerly for the ratings results … Read more

The news that emanated yesterday from CBS management should have simply been considered surprising.  It’s not easy to generate what by most conventional standards is considered a hit these days, so at least my eyebrows were raised when I saw stories like this from the venerable Rick (THE HOLLYWOOD RE-)Porter: CBS is cutting the ranks … Read more

UPDATED 6:28 PM PT MONDAY WITH RATINGS RESULTS.   There were some truly talented and photogenic people on display last night during the 97th Oscars.  And there were enough high points and some genuinely engaging moments to keep me engaged and awake–well, the first three hours at least.  Memo to self: never mix migraine medication and … Read more