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The Tank Is Full Again
Of all of the attempts to try and get attention to the season premieres of broadcast TV shows during the past week, one of the more ambitious was the first-ever staging of SHARK TANK in front of a live studio audience. It was hardly the most heavily promoted event, and with good reason. SHARK TANK
An Amazonian Performance Across The Board
So a mere few hours before its second NFL Thursday night game, Amazon Prime Video finally announced the official tallies of viewership for their first a week earlier. Not exactly an overnight rating, for a number of both legitimate and red tape reasons, but in many ways worth the wait. Sports and business media, not
In A Increasingly Comeptitive Streaming Environment, Is Andor An “And” Or An “Or”?
You really didn’t think Disney+ was going to sit idly by and let their competitors at HBO Max and Prime Video respectively be the only ones using brand extensions of successful scripted fantasy franchises to battle for eyeballs and relevance, did you? They just waited for the dust to settle, for the respective seasons of
Should It Matter If Someone Spins To The Right?
Social media has been abuzz with reaction to a picture recently released that depicts WHEEL OF FORTUNE emcee Pat Sajak with notorious congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and a right-wing network TV host. As Huff Post’s Ron Dicker reported, it has sent the snark-a-verse into overdrive: Sajak has hinted at retiring soon after about four decades on the
Dancing In The Dark
The new fall TV season kicked off last night, and in recent years the first to kick off on broadcast TV was the venerable reality competition series DANCING WITH THE STARS. A hokey but immensely popular chance for B list and below “celebrities” to team with professional dancers and show off their moves, for 30
Rescued Again?
Got a call from an old friend, we used to be real close Said he couldn’t go on the American way Closed the shop, sold the house, bought a ticket to the west coast Now he gives them a stand-up routine in L.A. Lately, I’ve been humming Billy Joel’s inspiration lyrics in my head a
God Save The Windsors
With all that’s been going on in my world lately, sleep is often an aspiration and, frankly, occurs only when my body reaches a point of exhaustion where it’s impossible for me to continue thinking or moving. Fortunately, it hasn’t yet happened while I was operating a motor vehicle, but otherwise, it’s fair to say
G*E*N*I*U*S
Exactly 50 years ago tonight, two new half-hour comedies from 20th Century Fox TV that mined the IP of their theatricals debuted back-to-back to lead off their Sunday night prime time schedule. (Yes, this was before 60 MINUTES had that slot; in those days, it aired seasonally at 6 PM once the NFL season ended).
When Dystopia Is Ripped From The Headlines, It’s A Familiar Tale
In a month where every streaming service of consequence seems to be trying to find a way to get still more of us to eschew linear TV, and in a competitive landscape already superserviced with male-appeal sci-fi fantasy, it’s unsurprising, and strategically smart, for Hulu to launch the fifth season of THE HANDMAID’S TALE this