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I Need To Scream. Yes, Again.
Did you ever one of THOSE days? You know I’ve had more than my fair share of late. Yesterday was particularly distressing, one that I felt was needing of a primal scream. Ever since I read this piece on the benefits of why screaming for self-care was beneficial, which was offered to me when my
America’s Dumbest C-Suite Executives?
The last time I was actively involved in making decisions about which TV shows to buy was a brief period where I was advising a smaller, newer UPN affiliate in Orlando, Florida (for the younger among us, google UPN). At the NATPE convention wheee I shephered the station’s owners, one of the surprisingly popular shows
Embrace Debate?
As the world’s worst repurposing for a failed game show set, aka the kickoff debate for the 2024 Republican Presidential nomination, gets ready to take place on a basketball court in Milwaukee, I have mild but admittedly morbid curiosity. Most of the field that will show up to wage battle for the lion’s (well, relative
Here’s A Reality Check: Maybe There’s More Than Enough Fault To Go Around?
So as promised last week, the “day of reckoning” against the reality TV industry, or at least the significant sector carved out by the NBCUniversal family of networks, came on Sunday, and yesterday the WRAP’s Loree Weitz broke the details of it to the rest of us: Lawyers representing reality stars and crew of NBCUniversal
Still Zingin’ In The Rain
Not much went on in Los Angeles yesterday; heck, our mayor was all over Sunday morning national news programs yesterday comparing what we were about to experience with Tropical Storm Hillary to what those in Maui experienced with wildfires recently. Given her political leanings, I suppose she was a bit more afraid of a storm
Still Fighting On
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Still Fighting On
No less than the ageless and indominatable Norman Lear, currently in the later stages of development for two new streaming services a few weeks past his 101st birthday, gives me the kind of confidence and resilience to continue to soldier on and push like mad for even a day of what used to be for
A Dimension Of Their Own?
Creatives are, by necessity, driven by passion. When writers, producers, actors and directors are interviewed, invariably, the words “labor of love” consistently emerge. When you invest blood, sweat, tears and yes, money into something you believe in, you despertately want to at least be given a fair chance to pursue your dream as long as
You Gotta Know When To Hold Them
As 2023 unfolded and it was clear that the houses of cards that were being amassed by traditional media companies to leverage their assets into siloed behemoths were crumbling, one of the more telling signs of this not going as well as planned was the announcement that Paramount Global, nee Viacom, was looking for ways