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I’ll admit, I’m not the authority on anything related to GAME OF THRONES.  My roommate has implored, urged, cajoled and even chided me to watch the original series.  And as someone who loves compelling, epic television, I know I should.  But, honestly, the idea of devoting more than 100 hours to anything other than physical

Depending upon what generation you are in, this morning’s revelation from Nielsen that July 2022 was the first month ever since they began measuring the total share of television among the buckets of cable, broadcast and streaming that the latter category was the platform of choice by a plurality of persons over the age of

A little more than 40 years ago, in the infancy of Stan Lee’s expansion of his core Marvel super-heroes, the publisher introduced a female counterpart to the Incredible Hulk.  At the time, the character was enjoying a renaissance via the mercurial hit CBS prime time series, which immortalized bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno as a pop-culture icon

Yesterday’s official announcement that Nexstar was taking over controlling interest in the CW network was not a surprise; the handwriting has been on the wall since former co-parents CBS and Warner Brothers evolved into streaming-centric companies with more parochial priorities than the CW as currently structured provides.  Indeed, I had predicted the network was a

Let’s face it, Mickey Mouse isn’t exactly a poster child for athletic ability.  He’s not tall, wears shoes far too big for him and doesn’t exactly appear ripped.  Frankly, Goofy’s more of an athlete, though he is more the lanky type than imposing. So the connection of a generation that has seen ESPN and Disney

Whenever I would be reporting on studies that would follow the launch or relaunch of a channel, I would forever be grilled by dubious executives and stakeholders wondering how something that so many people indicated they would subscribe to could yield such underachieving ratings.  After all, they would attest, didn’t we all develop such a