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One Last First?
As 2021 starts to wind down, I’ve got what will likely be my final in-person sporting event on tap today when I attempt to watch my beloved but depleted New York Football Giants attempt to take on the Los Angeles Chargers at still-spanking new SoFi Stadium. ‘ When I purchased the tickets last spring, I
And Just Like That…This?
I actually looked forward to the reboot of SEX AND THE CITY that debuted this week on HBO Max. As someone who watched a lot of TV with my wife, this show became a staple of our binges and often one of the few escapes from the misery I endured. The show took on a
From Too Little To Too Much?
One of the big inflection points of pop culture and media research has been the ongoing noise about the transparency of information coming from Netflix about the performance of its content. As a subscription video on demand service, its business model relies strictly on whether people continue to pay for the opportuity to watch, not
This Land Is Yours, Landgraf
Almost lost in the pre-Christmas rush of media and pandemic news was a report of a branding tweak that I believe represents a huge win for a perpetual insurgent that has even triumphed over Mickey Mouse. Disney announced this week that FX, the network I am proud to say I helped build that was acquired
Even This We Get To Experience
Tonight two television shows originally written in the 1970s and 1980s will be performed live in front of a (fully vaccinated) studio audience on the cusp of 2022 helmed by a man who was born in 1922. And trust me, he will be very much alive and in front of a studio audience himself. Simply
It’s About Time
On a December Sunday filled with football and latkes the best news I saw yesterday was the announcement that, nearly 60 years after he retired and nearly 50 years after he died Gil Hodges is finally, finally going to be immortalized in the baseball Hall of Fame. As a Mets fan who came of age
Of Trump And Research
Incredibly, the intersection between the world of Leblanguage and the world of Donald Trump is larger than logic would otherwise dictate. And I’ll offer that on many measures I could help him be better at what he tries to do. Yesterday it was reported by The Young Turks, a progressive-skewing online news network, that the
The Land of Oz
Once upon a time Mehmet Oz was an effervescent practicing cardiologist at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York who caught the eye of Oprah Winfrey and began contributing to her wildly popular daytime show. As Oprah’s clout and empire expanded, along with Phil McGraw (success) and Nate Berkus (miss) Oz got the opportunity for
Opening Up A Tinderbox
If you haven’t yet read an oral history book by James Andrew Miller you really can’t consider yourself an expert on any subject he has written about. Miller is a consummate researcher and expert organizer of timelines that produce exhaustive recounts of media history through the words of those that produced them. After previously tackling