I’ve always been at a crossroads when it comes to being tasked with analyses that have agendas attached to them. On many occasions, I was instructed by financial executives to do post-mortems on movies and shows that had just taken six and seven-figure hits to their bottom lines for costs associated with entries into festivals. … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, TheDoubleOvertime.com. Please visit it regularly for expanded coverage of sports, as well as feature articles from Binary Web. Forget what your calendar and thermometer might otherwise be telling you. Autumn has officially begun, and it’s not just because pumpkin lattes are back on Starbucks’ menus … Read more
Most days, media headlines revolve around folks I’m familiar with but often never crossed paths with. Every now and then, someone who I do have a connection to will be in the news; lately such names tend to be part of long lists of those being laid off. But yesterday, two folks I have more … Read more
My ex and I were often lax in keeping our home free of clutter. OK, we probably would have been considered prime candidates for the series HOARDERS. But even we would eventually reach a point where we’d be overwhelmed enough to hold a garage sale to get a little bit of extra cache out of … Read more
No, I didn’t miss the news that broke last week from Nielsen when it finally dropped their semi-timely monthly clickbait they call THE GAUGE. They’ve conditioned most mainstream media trade sites to hold a spot in their news cycles when it releases their information roughly three weeks into the following calendar month, ostensibly to include … Read more
I had some mild awareness of Adam Conover before yesterday, though I was hardly a rabid fan. He fronted what truTV classified as a scripted comedy series called ADAM RUINS EVERYTHING for four years during an era where it ran in rotation with a host of clearly unscripted ones, the most successful being IMPRACTICAL JOKERS, … Read more
I couldn’t get out of the way of the drumbeat and excitement that so many cultural pundits have been dropping in recent days about some highly anticipated returns of original streaming series that they’ve heretofore adored. I happen to be in the camp that adores Hulu’s ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING, if for no other … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, www.TheDoubleOvertime.com. Please visit it regularly to access stories on sports. To say that there’s a rift between Adam Silver and David Zaslav would be putting it mildly. Based upon what went down late Friday night, it’s more apparent than ever that neither one’s gonna be … Read more
MEMO TO: CHANNING DUNGEY, CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE, WARNER BROTHERS TELEVISION GROUP FROM: STEVE LEBLANG, MEDIA CONSULTANT RE: YOU, TOO CAN #KNOWDRAMA Hello again, Ms. Dungey. And please allow me to pick the pieces of crow I’ve been having for breakfast out of my teeth. One minute while I turn my head away. OK, now … Read more
Elaine Low is a self-described “one-time cub reporter” who is now described as a “staff writer” for THE ANKLER, the insurgent entertainment website co-founded by a couple of veteran journalists who grew dissatsified with the direction and monopoly that Jay Penske has taken the industry’s legacy brands, including VARIETY! and co-founder Janice Min’s former purview, … Read more