A longtime friend of mine who recently departed the CW passed along a lengthy piece that recently dropped on DECIDER lamenting what is now clearly the end of an era. The Alex Zalben-authored piece was an emotional eulogy to a network that was a champion of diversity, stability and storytelling. led for most of its … Read more
When CBS and Paramount Global announced it would eschew the 2023 upfronts with an actual glitzly presentation to advertisers in New York Netflix was quick to step in and fill the void. Given the fact that, based upon its aggressive projections and their own detailed internal data that continued to tout record-breaking debut after debut, … Read more
There’s an awful lot of game show content debuting in all forms of media–TV, online, print–of late, many of which directly involve people I’d like to think are personal friends. I realize I’m in a very small minority of those who consume this eagerly and avidly because, hey, I admit I love the genre, and … Read more
When I was going through some extremely troubled times in the wake of my simulatenous separations from Sony, my spouse and society, on the heels of a near-death experience, someone I grew quite fond of extended me an olive branch by introducing me to believers who had played an important role in their recovery from … Read more
Not all that long ago, the media world revolved around upfront week, the official kickoff just before Memorial Day to a spirited series of glitzy presentations, lavish parties lasting deep in the newly balmly New York nights, numerous June late nights where negotiations for the upcoming season would accelerate in the hopes of getting it … Read more
Bob Iger updated the media community on all things Disney last week, revealing his plans for how to deal with some existential crises he is facing as his second tour of duty as King Mouse unfolds. We learned how he is planning to deal with the writers’ strike (far less collegially than he did with … Read more
Very briefly early in my career, my eye was caught was a bright, attractive young intern (if memory serves me right) at the last job I had in New York , a smart, savvy research analyst with an odd last name. She was introduced to me as Linda Yaccarino, which my warped young mind immediately … Read more
From the way so many people in my social media feed, as well as so many others’, reacted to the folly that CNN telecast Wednesday night in the 8 PM hour, you’d think CEO Chris Licht was as guilty of treasonous behavior as the obese orange “Cyrus” he gave a forum to. He also delivered … Read more
Note to self: do what is possible to avoid taking impromptu naps. Before yesterday afternoon, the last time I was jarred awake by a text message alert that my best friend had been an unwitting victim of a crime (it wasn’t physical; said friend is fine, albeif emotionally jarred). Yesterday, another good friend texted me … Read more
Closure. Many of us want it. Sometimes we want it as much, or perhaps more, than an opening. Being denied it can trugger emotional reactions that elicit degrees of passion rarely evoked by other passages of time or life. In my case, I have cried literally for years almost nightly in the pious hope that … Read more