Le Blog

Tonight could be a watershed moment in the history of televised sports.  Amazon Prime Video will debut its Thursday Night Football package, and will have a great divisional matchup between the Los Angeles Chargers and Kansas City Chiefs, featuring outstanding young quarterbacks Justin Herbert and Patrick Mahomes squaring off having both won their 2022openers, to

I’m a huge fan of reports based on actual data that reflects actual behavior, not algorithms or “intent to view” metrics that mask as such (yeh, Parrot Analytics, that means you). So when Brandon Katz of The Wrap reported yesterday on an exhaustive study conducted by Samba TV on what and how people consume content

I’ve documented and discussed the growing indifference to awards, and especially awards shows, on several previous occasions.  The Emmys have seen an especially precipitous decline in popularity and zeitgeist in recent years, perhaps self-inflicted.  Not only has broadcast television been all but ignored in nominations, let alone victories, save for occasional outliers like black-ISH and

When I ran research projects for various FOX networks, I championed the need to be sure we were not only talking to representative people based on demography and level of interest, but also geography.  Long before the cheat of online groups were a viable option, we’d criss-cross the country like surrepititious vagabonds, starting out in

Forgive my “get off my lawn” attitude when it comes to revisionist history about game shows.  It seems that many alleged historians forget that many shows’ histories didn’t necessarily begin when they first became popular.  THE PRICE IS RIGHT’s current incarnation turned 50 this year; it was first established as a wildly popular, more sedate show

One of the joys of working in entertainment if you’re actually a fan of it is if you’re lucky you get to work with some of the most enduring intellectual properties that can be found in any industry.  Few studios are as rich in IP as Sony, with rights to decades of Columbia Pictures movies

Former Disney chairman Bob Iger was the featured interview at the Code Conference yesterday in sweltering Los Angeles, and he made headlines with even hotter takes about the future of the entertainment industry.  If you haven’t yet digested his takes, prodded by the brilliant tech/media savant Kara Swisher, I strongly encourage you to do so. 

As what is left of a fall TV season begins to unfold, local stations are getting ready to debut new shows to replace the numerous veterans that are departing.  No more prominent on this list are the time periods being given up with Ellen DeGeneres’ departure, which becomes official at the end of this week