It’s major league baseball’s opening day, which to me is justification for a national holiday. Technically, the season had already opened last night, when the Yankees steamrolled through the Giants (and my supposed fantasy team ace Logan Webb) 7-0, despite an 0-for-5 performance with FOUR strikeouts from the defending two-time AL MVP Aaron Judge. But … Read more
My AI skill sets have improved of late, as some of you may have noticed from the occasional graphics that grace these musings. I primarily use Copilot cuz it’s ubiquitously available and, most importantly, free, and I’ve learned how to trick the interface into allowing me to get away with a bit more bitingly satirical … Read more
These days, I sort of put the Nielsen Company into the same recesses of my brain that I put a restaurant that at one time was one of favorite places to break bread. You know, at a time when I was a valued customer of theirs and when I had far greater financial resources to … Read more
Lisa Kudrow and Michael Patrick King have arguably been way more valuable of late to Warner Brothers than even Bugs Bunny. King’s SEX AND THE CITY, per FORBES’ Helen Coster’s 2008 piece, earned an ambiguous “hundreds of millions of dollars” for HBO and later produced some masterful left pocket/right pocket internal dealings to the tune … Read more
It hasn’t exactly been the best of times to be part of the Amazon ecosystem of late. They had practically no presence at any in awards season, few of their TV projects have turned up on any third party measurement lists, and Amazon Fresh outright flopped. Don’t even try to get me started on THE … Read more
Another Friday, another media institution bites the dust. This is getting to be a habit, and not in a good way. This time around the imminently deceased had reached a ripe old age but was nonetheless lamented as a premature death by what seemed like thousands of my collective social media followers in a matter … Read more
I’ve never quite grasped the appeal of the BACHELOR-verse, THE BACHELORETTE in particular. I’m clearly not in the sweet spot of their target audience, the reality-obsessed female 18-49 who was ostensibly being appealed to at the outset with the promise of turning the tables on the male fantasy that the original iteration of the series … Read more
Because I’m both a slave to data and a cockeyed realist, I’m painfully aware of where I actually rank in the pecking order of media pundits. Somewhere between pawn and minnow, based upon the statistics I have at my disposal. And that’s in spite of the obsessive attention to the size of images that may … Read more
There’s actually an original program premiering on E! tonight. Sort of. If you know anything about my fan base and followers, any time anything involving a game show is given attention it’s breaking news. And tonight they get yet another fix invoving perhaps their most enduring and prolific guilty pleasure, THE PRICE IS RIGHT. It’s … Read more
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, especially when that woman is capable of slaying vampires. The perpetually intrepid queen of DEADLINE Nellie Andreeva took to her soapbox on Saturday morning to urgently amplify the latest proof of that parable to her readers: Hulu has opted not to proceed with its Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot, starring and … Read more