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I rarely get rooked into the anticipation and buildup for a new season of premium TV.  These days, publicity tours and media blitzes for such priorities are downright overwhelming.  Between TV, podcasts and websites, along with a few strategically placed print stories, the degree of desperate hype to get people to be aware that something

A good friend, one who keeps similar hours and passions to mine, forwarded me a recent provocative piece from Leticia Moranda of Bloomberg entitled We’re Drowning In Opinions.  His timing was optimal, as I had recently just let my subscription to Bloomberg lapse. My Bloomberg subscription, while it was a relatively minimal $35/year, overlapped with

As the countdown to what will undoubtedly be one of the most crucial and contentious upfront negotiating seasons ever continues, there is an impressive collaborative effort being led by several media conglomerates with linear and streaming platforms, including NBC Universal, Televisa Univision, Paramount Global and Warner Brothers Discovery, to stimulate the sharing and availability of

So I finally gave into the latest craze of 2023,.  Thanks to the newly available Microsoft Bing Chat update that was released earlier this week, now I can afford to join the millions who already paid $50 or so for the likes of Chat GPT.  So far, I haven’t been asked for a penny, so

Lately, there has been a lot of failure in media news, particularly in the subset of streaming platforms.  Not a day goes by when something negative about overly ambitious subscription goals not being met, ambitious series not achieving enough traction to warrant being produced beyond one or two seasons, or the pious belief that a

Sometimes, I don’t jump on bandwagons as quickly as I should.  Some would assert at my age I shouldn’t even be thinking of bandwagons, or even the act of jumping.  Curmudgeonly, smug, entitled attitudes seem to fester with age, and as you can tell my dander is kicked up at the very thought of settling