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Today, Encino! Tomorrow, Who Knows?
If you’re hell bent on having me bite your head off on social media, feel free to post yet another mindless rant about our current adminstration and some action or inaction that you think merits your one and one-half cents. You may think it’s therapeutic and gain some solace from the bevy of “I agrees”
They’ve Covering All The Bases
There couldn’t be two less likely candidates to have overlapping audiences than the respective series launches that occurred in prime time last night. On the ancient-skewing CBS, with the compromised 60 MINUTES as a lead-in, was the latest entry into the YELLOWSTONE-verse–and the first that actually was premiering on what used to be called a
Epic Fury?! Only In My Browser
Another weekend, another–ahem–war. We can barely go six months without one these days, can we? Forgive me if I’m not quite as excited or non-plussed as perhaps you are about what went down early Saturday morning in beautiful downtown Tehran. I assume unless you’ve been living under a rock or perhaps hiking in South America
More News Doesn’t Always Mean More Newscasters
It was anything but a bellweather week for TV journalists, and I’m not merely referencing the shell-shocked and panicked employees at CBS NEWS and CNN. While their worlds may be crashing down in their minds, as THE GUARDIAN’s Jeremy Barr conveyed yesterday, at least for the moment they’re still employed. That’s more than can be
Rock Crushes Scissors!!!
No, it wasn’t an earthquake that rippled through Hollywood, Wall Street and just about everywhere where the worlds of media and business intersect yesterday. More like an avalanche. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL’s Joe Flint was among the first that reported what went down: Paramount Skydance emerged victorious in the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery
Everything That’s New Is Old Again
I’ve never quite understood exactly why SCRUBS broke through at all. When it debuted a quarter-century ago it seemed to borrow elements from just about everything and everyone associated with it. It was adjacent to ER, so the hospital setting was a natural, and it often attempted to draw from that show’s walk-and-talk shooting style.
Two Wrongs Don’t Make A Right. Or A Left.
At the risk of alienating even more people who apparently were only my friends if I shared the same level of unbridled anger at the current adminstration, I’ll confess I at least attempted to watch the spectacle that unfolded last night in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol. You know, that tourist attraction that
American Dud
The downside of a rare night out for me is that the following day leaves me even more sleep-deprived than usual. Sunday was one of those rare occasions, so yesterday was one of those days where I needed several naps to try and catch up to the energy level I normally aspire to. None of
Finally, An NBC Comedy Even I Like
I haven’t been all that kind to NBC comedies in this decade. Maybe it’s because I hold them to the high standard that the must-see TV components of the 80s and 90s set as a bar. And no, I’m not being so unrealistic that I’m insisting everything be as massive and broad-appeal as the more