With a media landscape newly awash with rampant rumors about mergers and acquisitions, ostensibly to “save the industry”, at least one that was on track to reality is now apparently back to square one. Per THE VERGE’s Emma Roth: DirecTV has dropped its plans to acquire Dish, the company announced Thursday. The deal would’ve created a … Read more
Two competing streaming services with linear extensions (based on what went down at Comcast this week, I’m grudgingly conceding that this is the pecking order in this brave new media world) both launched expensive, highly anticipated scripted dramas this week. Both leaned heavily on pre-existing fan bases to gain sampling, and both were providing something … Read more
Out of all of the many eyebrow and blood pressure-raising appointments to the incoming president’s cabinet that have been released in plumes of white smoke disguised as posts on Truth Social since a majority of Americans decided to bring him back to the country’s highest office, one that has been derided a bit more than … Read more
It was less than three weeks ago when the first news broke about the impending divorce of Comcast from its portfolio of cable networks. We devoted a musing to it then when the consensus of experts, and this still small voice as well, was anything but upbeat. Yesterday, more news broke with further details–and a … Read more
It’s rare that the aftermath of a major sporting event can provoke more interest and intrigue than the event itself. But given the bar that was set by the thoroughly uncompetitive exhibition, “sanctioned” or not, between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson which Netflix streamed to the world Friday night, there was more than a puncher’s … Read more
The holiday movie season is officially under way, though the heavier hittiers, especially the components of #Glicked, are due later this week. For this past weekend, we got the opportunity to see a couple of box office behemoths from established franchises cavort in what can only be termed as a somewhat bizarre offering. Wikipedia tersely … Read more
NOTE: This also appears today on our sister site, Double Overtime. Please visit it regularly for musings and commentary on sports and technology. On an otherwise quiet Saturday, as almost an afterthought in reaction to some insider knowledge that THE RINGER’s Bill Simmons shared on X (what? Not Bluesky?!?!), news began to spread that had … Read more
So I bit the bullet and became, by my account, roughly the 17 millionth human to open an account on Bluesky during yet another bout of insomnia where literally dozens of folks I follow were bragging on other social media platforms we share about the soul-cleansing experience they experienced doing so. At least that’s the … Read more
Ted Turner seems to have this uncanny knack for coming into my life just when I tend to have a real need for entertainment–or sometimes something far more substantial. So you shouldn’t be surprised when you read I am downright evangelical about CALL ME TED, the six-hour documentary retrospective on his life which dropped earlier … Read more
When yesterday’s news cycle was disrupted by the unlikely headline that of all the folks in the United States with a bar degree somehow Florida congressman Matt Goetz emerged as the choice of the incoming president for Attorney General, it sent shock waves and even some disgust through pundits and even some elected officials. THE … Read more