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I finally caught up with a longtime business colleague and friend for a quick but highly needed lunch earlier this week.   She can be forgiven; it’s been roughly a year since she was part of the second wave of layoffs that her division of CBS endured.  With two teenage children, one who’s just begun to

Snark if you choose, but my passion for game shows is justified every time someone takes a hard look at the economic realities of entertainment these days.  In a world of seemingly endless choices of expensive scripted content, the fact that few can now actually reach the level of popularity to justify their production is

While most of us were otherwise preoccupied with our mundane day-to-day lives and having to endure endless and increasingly desperate-sounding political ads and texts, the lucky few who still have tentacles to international television got to escape to the spectacular environs of Cannes this past week, for what was perhaps the final incarnation of the

I’m not all that great with guessing ages, and I’m usually too courteous to attempt a guess of a woman’s unless invited to.   Based on what little I know about Lisa Hamilton Daly, I don’t think I’m ever getting the gravitas from her to do so. But she has somehow become a trending item over

I get that it’s sort of a slow news cycle in the silly little world of media.  The fall TV premieres have pretty much all gone down, the handful of significant holiday theatrical releases (thanks again, AMPTP) are still a way’s off, the dealmakers are partying it up on the Croissette at MIPCOM this week