Ryan Murphy and his team are no strangers to tackling stories of morally ambiguous and salacious protagonists. This has been particularly true with his series of AMERICAN STORIES that have cemented FX’s place in the entertainment ecosystem for such showcasings. AMERICAN HORROR STORY was the first of these anthologies, and was able to attract both … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, www.TheDoubleOvertime.com. Please visit it regularly for extended coverage of all things sports. I am unapolgetically a huge fan of Kelly Kahl’s, and not just because he ultimately rose farther than just about anyone else who once called research his calling, ultimately becoming the president of … 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
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
NOTE: This story also appears today on our sister site, Double Overtime (thedoubleovertime.com) Please visit it regularly for musings on sports. The Olympics are providing an awful lot of wonderful stories so far at a time when they are SORELY needed. Many involve the expected that had had previous glory and notoriety, such as the … Read more
I’m arguably as passionate and diverse a sports fan as you will find, and based on how my life has been going of late I consider my media subscriptions to be sacrosanct priorities to keep my sanity. And since I don’t exactly have unlimited funds, I’m forever looking for ways to save a few bucks … Read more
Quelle surprise. NBCUniversal has yet another summer blockbuster to strut about. And this one doesn’t even require anyone to get off their couch–although, given the recent temperature break, you certainly could–or should. As THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER’s Rick Porter crowed yesterday afternoon: The opening weekend of the 2024 Olympics has NBCUniversal saying “Vive la France.” Through … Read more
Quelle surprise. NBCUniversal has yet another summer blockbuster to strut about. And this one doesn’t even require anyone to get off their couch–although, given the recent temperature break, you certainly could–or should. As THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER’s Rick Porter crowed yesterday afternoon: The opening weekend of the 2024 Olympics has NBCUniversal saying “Vive la France.” Through … Read more
You’d be hard pressed to find any media company with more to cheer about this summer than Comcast. Between DESPICABLE ME and TWISTERS, they’ve effectively owned the theatrical box office and have almost single-handedly helped stave off the relentless naysayers who prematurely concluded that that business was heading for the same fate as Blockbuster Video. … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, Double Overtime (thedoubleovertime.com) Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports fandom and media. If this were a normal NBA summer, last night’s Summer League finale before a sparse dispassionate crowd at Las Vegas’ Thomas and Mack Center would have been the last gasp of … Read more