I have a long and complicated history with SHOWTIME. I actually was able to watch it even before I saw a second of HBO, thanks to the fact that the 12-channel cable system in my college town was the notoriously cheap then-monolith TeleprompTer and they were unwilling to pay what they thought were the exorbitant … Read more
I admit to having a soft spot for CNN, and it’s not just because of the three years I spent with their parent company just after the first Gulf War turned what was even internally referred to as Chicken Noodle News into an indispensable and valued always-on resource for breaking news and vital information. They … Read more
The Oscar nominations are finally out, delayed a couple of weeks because of some minor annoyances like a few unprecedented fires that may or may not have disrupted the process of Academy voters actually doing the necessary work to watch the works of those that have attracted acclaim, buzz and earlier awards. It sure seems … Read more
I’m honestly doing my best to try and remain objective and indifferent as the second term of DJT unfolds. I realize that’s hardly an approach that’s winning me any brownie points with anyone, and it’s increasingly clear the Maginot lines are being drawn even starker and becoming more cemented between partisan sides. My roommate is … Read more
Like so many of you who apparently weren’t Jonesing to the celebration of whim and oligarchy that took place in frigid Washington, D.C. yesterday, a distraction was more needed than usual. Fortunately some astute folks at Peacock apparently foresaw that, or simply wanted to take advantage of a winter holiday weekend to showcase their latest … Read more
I’m kinda hoping you may be a newcomer to these musings this morning because, if I’m to believe the self-reported statistics I’m being inundated with, there’s a heapin’ helpin’ of y’all who have one less online destination to wile away some of your Sunday morning with. CBS NEWS’ Caitlin Yilek was one of the many … Read more
At a time when any shred of good news is like manna from heaven, leave it to the cultural zeitgeist experts at Apple TV+ to provide it by dropping the premiere of a second season of SEVERANCE. It’s been almost three years since its subscribers first got a glimpse of it and for its rabid … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, www.TheDoubleOvertime.com. Please visit it regularly for extended coverage of sports of all sorts plus articles on technology. The Good Lord timed Bob Uecker’s demise as ideally as possible if one has to accept its inevitability–in the dead of winter and after one last title celebration, with … Read more
I’ll start out by saying that I’m anything but a fan of Tim Allen’s. I never did get his standup act and I was not a viewer of HOME IMPROVEMENT, his breakthrough sitcom that eclipsed even ROSEANNE as the number one half-hour on network television for a good part of the early ’90s. And the … Read more
Seems that no matter how much or how little they may be pursuing it, the kind folks at Comcast can’t keep their media properties out of the news cycle. Just this week alone two of the problem children that were recently lumped into their stock play pursuit know for the time being as SpinCo have … Read more