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They Got Plenty Of Dutton
It’s not easy to find positivity around the Paramount media universe these days. Sure, they appear to have won the battle for Warner Brothers, the half-assed efforts of Rob Bonda, Richard Rushfield and Elizabeth Warren notwithstanding. But at the same time they’ve been losing substantially more wars. CBS is no longer America’s Most Watched Network–when
The Four-Month Pregame Show Has Begun
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site The Double Overtime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sports plus occasional essays on business and technology. Well, NOW you can consider upfront week closed. No matter how much or little detail was offered by the various companies that trotted out
For Me, It’s More Of An ApplAInce Than It Is A Tool.
When I chose to begin a new life going solo I made a Faustian pact with my sister that I would not fall into the trap that far too many divorced men fall into–exclusively rely upon restaurants or take-out for my nourishment. In between my first and second marriages that defined my own eating habits,
How NOT To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
For as much as I’d like to think my musings are original and trail-blazing I’m perpetually reminded by my metrics that I’m clearly neither. Spend enough time around numbers as I have and you can’t help but take that sort of approach. So when I look at the numbers specific to ABC of late I’m
I’m Just Not Down With Upfronts Any More
There was a time when upfront week was practically Christmas in May. I didn’t get to attend many of them, but considering how much work and overtime I put into even the ones I supported the week was a continuous array of catered meetings and persistent updates as networks announced their fall lineups and series
A Bittersweet Day In The Neighborhood
Another show bites the dust tonight, which I realize on the surface is as dog-bites-man a story as is capable of being produced nowadays. I wasn’t a regular viewer of THE NEIGHBORHOOD, which sunsets CBS tonight after an impressive eight seasons and 156 episodes. Those are the kind of numbers that old school situation comedies
To All The Moms I’ve Loved Before. And Even The Ones I Haven’t
For a change–and some might say for the better, I’m speechless. Mother’s Day does this to me. If you’re among the scant few who have been regularly devouring these musings, you already know that. My own mother is gone a couple of weeks short of 35 years, her heart literally suddenly exploding mere hours after
Not Your Father’s FOX. More Like The Fathers’ FOX?
Depending upon what generation you fall into your Pavolvian reaction to what kind of shows you’d associate with FOX is likely to vary. Certainly, if you’re a child of the 90s you’ll immediately pivot to one of the tentpoles of ANIMATION DOMINATION–THE SIMPSONS, FAMILY GUY, AMERICAN DAD et al if you’re male, and the Spelling
Maybe The Problem Isn’t Ratings. It Could Be The Fear Of Commitment.
Whenever I see sobering statistics on how shows what were once seen as saviors turning quickly into afterthoughts and write-offs I pay attention; when you’ve been as empowered and as enriched as I have been to react to such stimuli for as long as I was old habits die hard. The latest example of that