It’s Not Good Mourning Football Quite Yet

It’s Not Good Mourning Football Quite Yet

It was an emotional Good Friday for the cast and crew, let alone the small but passionate fan base, of GOOD MORNING, FOOTBALL.  It’s actually been airing for seven and a half years, live from New York, weekday mornings on NFL Network.  Even among sports networks, it was an afterthought in a daypart where yelling … Read more

Bird Bites Man?

Bird Bites Man?

Amidst a somewhat tumultuous week for certain divisions of NBCUniversal (make sure you return that IPad, Ronna, not that you were around long enough to have it set up for you), some news came out of the Peacock camp that seemed to trumpet that they found the secret sauce to streaming success.    Put a … Read more

Head Of The Classless

Head Of The Classless

Dan Schneider has basically spent almost his entire life within the vicinity of a soundstage.  As a teen actor, he was part of the ensemble cast of the modestly successful ABC sitcom HEAD OF THE CLASS, where he portrayed, as Wikipedia described him, the overweight, wisecracking cynic Dennis Blunden , a computer whiz whose fields … Read more

Et Tu, Cesar?

Et Tu, Cesar?

I grew up as a heavy viewer, literally and figuratively, of NBC News.  We lived in an area where the CBS over-the-air signal on Channel 2 was often snowy and grainy, so we only watched in prime time when there was a sitcom or drama we HAD to watch (God, my mom LOVED Steve McGarrett … Read more

No Calm In This Stormy

No Calm In This Stormy

The first scenes of the newly released documentary film STORMY features shots of a rather mundane home life of Stephanie Clifford and her young daughter in a tony home in the Dallas-area suburb of Forney, Texas.  The daughter is helping her mom apply lip gloss, a dog is lying adoringly on a sofa, and we … Read more

Let Mike Be Like Mike.  Not Your Distant Perception.

Let Mike Be Like Mike. Not Your Distant Perception.

So my former Sony colleague Mike Richards is back in the news cycle, courtesy of a PEOPLE Magazine “exclusive” released earlier this week and penned by the apropriately monickered Gillian Telling, who at last is telling Richards’ side of stories that have dominated the media news and yes, click-bait worlds pretty much since Richards took … Read more

How To Best Unlock THE GATES

How To Best Unlock THE GATES

Daytime broadcast network television, which at one time actually drove the profit margins of their companies in an era when they actually did make money, has deteriorated into little more than a vast wasteland of legacy formats and lots of news and news-adjacent content.  In a world where timeshift viewing and catch-up streaming options proliferate, … Read more

How To Achieve (Relatively) Wild Success

How To Achieve (Relatively) Wild Success

Chances are you might not be aware of a new show that has helped its network both build and broaden its audience from what it inherited but also find a way to do so in a fiscally responsible manner.  You might recall we had a pretty prolonged strike last year that dealt with the reality … Read more

New Rules?

New Rules?

Now, where were we? When I chose to take a break a bit more than a month ago, I was arguably at a low point even by my modest standards, and in hindsight it showed at every level.  Even when people were doing something that had the chance to be right, more often that not … Read more