Last night, CBS devoted two wonderful hours to celebrating a milestone birthday of one of its legendary performers whose comedy entertained and inspired several generations of talented aspiring followers. One could argue that 98 isn’t what is traditionally considered to be a milestone; I’m not aware of any particular gem or traditional choice for such … Read more
Well, this is often what happens when Chanukah finishes early. While the majority of the world is in holiday mode, those who don’t celebrate the holiday are looking for things besides the umpteenth rerun of ELF to keep themselves entertained. If you happen to be among those non-Christmas celebrants looking for a connection of sorts, … Read more
I’ve taken some of the most pride in the way both this site and our sister sports site, Double Overtime have covered perhaps my personal favorite intersection, sports and media. And this year, it was nay impossible not to pay attention, as the world as we’ve known it pretty much since the mid-1970s was coming … Read more
If you’re a regular reader of these musings, you likely know the name Adam Nedeff, and you probably know him better than I do. For those of you who don’t, you should, and for a lot of reasons beyond the mere fact he can tell you more about people and shows no longer with us … Read more
I’ve arguably been more naughty than nice to Netflix since these musings began. Why, just about a year ago a holiday “best of” harkened back to the spring of ’22, when then-chairman Reed Hastings announced their intentions to start cracking down on password sharing as their way to stop what was then a relative trickle … Read more
While I admit I’m at times a bit less reverent to corporate executives who I truly wish would somehow find a way to accept me into their inner circles as many once did, when I choose to point out what they do that grinds my gears it’s not without good reason. Arguably, WBD chairman David … Read more
While the rest of the world slips into holiday mode, we’re devoting some of the final days of 2023 to revisiting some of what we would hope you would agree were some of the more on point musings we’ve done, particularly if something may be currently going on that in hindsight reinforced how on point … Read more
Adrian Monk knows exactly where we’ve been and what we’ve done. And he may just be where we’re all gonna go again. Say this much for NBC Universal. They may be not be winning any streaming wars in terms of subscribers (they literally took a victory lap when they recently announced that Peacock hit 30 … Read more
In the middle of Chanukah, and just 12 days before the 12 days of Christmas, research geeks and media pundits around the world were given a big, shiny data dump as a holiday gift, courtesy of Netflix. Why thank you, Teddy. How thoughtful of you. And only in a world where the mystique and aura … Read more
If there was any sure sign that, at least on some levels, things were returning to “normal” around Hollywood, yesterday morning we had yet another pre-dawn press conference timed for the East Coast-based morning news shows to breathlessly announce the nominees for an upcoming awards show. Because of the truncation of these events that were … Read more