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How To Best Exorcise Those Box Office Demons? Look East, Young Man
I drive a Kia and I do love me some Kogi barbecue, especially when the lines at their ever-popular food truck isn’t snaking around the block. That’s not often, mind you. So I’m clearly partial to Korean culture. But apparently my fervor pales in comparison to those who have been watching movies lately. Judging by
A Transition Of Emmy Eras (And A Couple Of Errors)
The Emmys were given out last night; there was a time not long ago when it would have been a VERY big deal. I used to attend on a regular basis, and I even got to ride by limo on occasion. During last night’s ceremonies there were a number of anniversaries that were celebrated and
When You Have To Scramble This Much, Maybe You Just Throw The Ball Away?
Last week, among other far less consequential events in the real world, a brand new syndicated game show called SCRAMBLED UP premiered. You’re forgiven if it was something you missed. In fact, if you noticed it at all you’re likely an insomniac, a TV addict or, more than likely, both. Creatively, SCRAMBLED UP is a
Words Don’t Kill. Even The X-Rated Ones.
I debated long and hard about posting any thoughts about the events of this week surrounding the death of Charlie Kirk. Frankly, way too many have already been written, and a sizable percentage have been some combination of premature, biased and not fully informed. The few I’ll attempt to contribute will likely alienate even more
Between A Rock And a REALLY Hard Place
The ink is barely dry on the paperwork that put Paramount under the purview of those mavericks (pun intended) from Skydance when we learned yesterday that was apparently merely step one on the way to global domination. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL’s well-wired Jessica Toonkel dropped this hot coal onto the media pyre yesterday afternoon: Paramount
What Would John Do? Write A Darn Honest And Compelling Memoir.
When I first began to interact with the movers and shakers in the cable industry after spending my formative years in the world of over-the-air TV on both the buyer and seller side, I was struck by two constants that I began to see with every meeting I was a part of. One was how
Clawing Back The Conversation
Yesterday was a good day for fans of quality TV. For starters, a new season of ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING finally dropped on Hulu. I use the qualifier “finally” because it’s been tacitly promoted pretty much all year, what with Steve Martin taking victory laps and having documentary biographies about his life being produced
Should The Whole Fleet Still Be Sailing?
You don’t necessarily have to be a fan of the NCIS-verse to realize that it’s arguably as essential to Paramount as any IP is to any media company. Between its record 22-season run that will see its 500th episode air early next year and the now six spinoffs it has germinated over the majority of
The VMAs Now Reach The Grammy Audience
How’s this for a reality check on how the sands of time have drizzled through the hourglass: The MTV Music Video Awards is now older than all but three of the 1384 men who have played major league baseball this year. Older than every single position player. And in the corporate superstructure of New Paramount