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You’d be hard pressed to find a performer who has been as resilient and as popular over the past four decades and change as Ted Danson.  No, he never did quite below the theatrical breakout his phenomenal early success as a breakout sitcom performer might have foreshadowed; he’s not and will never be John Travolta. 

I’m sometimes accused by those who seem to not look past the first sentence of a musing of being somewhat misognyistic and male-biased.  Far from it.  I’ve been blessed through my career with the presence of some truly talented and inspiring female colleagues, subordinates and superiors.  That’s all the more reason that when I encounter

Yet another connection to my past has passed away, and this one came out of nowhere.  Although he was of an advanced age, there was little indication from anywhere that we were going to see the news that broke last night, and in my particular social media algorithm was right up there with the passing

With a media landscape newly awash with rampant rumors about mergers and acquisitions, ostensibly to “save the industry”, at least one that was on track to reality is now apparently back to square one.  Per THE VERGE’s Emma Roth: DirecTV has dropped its plans to acquire Dish, the company announced Thursday. The deal would’ve created a

Two competing streaming services with linear extensions (based on what went down at Comcast this week, I’m grudgingly conceding that this is the pecking order in this brave new media world) both launched expensive, highly anticipated scripted dramas this week.  Both leaned heavily on pre-existing fan bases to gain sampling, and both were providing something

It was less than three weeks ago when the first news broke about the impending divorce of Comcast from its portfolio of cable networks.  We devoted a musing to it then when the consensus of experts, and this still small voice as well, was anything but upbeat. Yesterday, more news broke with further details–and a

It’s rare that the aftermath of a major sporting event can provoke more interest and intrigue than the event itself.  But given the bar that was set by the thoroughly uncompetitive exhibition, “sanctioned” or not, between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson which Netflix streamed to the world Friday night, there was more than a puncher’s

The holiday movie season is officially under way, though the heavier hittiers, especially the components of #Glicked, are due later this week.  For this past weekend, we got the opportunity to see a couple of box office behemoths from established franchises cavort in what can only be termed as a somewhat bizarre offering.  Wikipedia tersely