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I spent a little time with what is apparently the latest phenomenon to hit streaming media during yet another sleepless night via Prime Video’s OFF LIMITS.  At least that’s how THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER’s Rick Porter framed it when he obliged the platform’s spinmeisters with this Tuesday drop: Off Campus has skated its way to a strong

Unlike most who are as seasoned as moi, I get particularly motivated by novelty and the chance to try something different.  When the balance of one’s life is reduced to remarkably redundant and empty experiences and a Sisyphusian series of results to build up one’s bank account, you take your chances for wins whereever you

It just so happens that last week was yet another milestone that came and went with such little fanfare even I didn’t notice it.  On Wednesday we began our sixth year of these musings.  Back in days when television shows were actually syndicated that was the sign that the series had reached a mature enough

If you were perhaps among the many thay might have gotten shut out seeing THE MANDOLORIAN AND GORGU this weekend–and depending upon how rigid one’s preferences on screen type and time are that’s always a possibility–you might have been among those who “settled” for leftovers in your favorite multiplex.  That’s a strategy many releases that

I was a fortunate soul who got the chance to appear on a nationally distributed game show at a young age, which was even then the fulfillment of a lifelong dream.  The fact that I won the grand prize on a show that just happened to be on one the rare network shows of the

I can’t say I’m thrilled that the days of Stephen Colbert on CBS are now at an end.  Like more than six million other linear viewers in near-real time did late Thursday night and Friday morning, I watched his last LATE SHOW probably in a more forgiving way than so many others did.  In direct

It would be both incorrect and unfair to sat that the verdict on whether or not Disney’s decision to take Rupert Murdoch up on his invitation to relieve him of the middle of his media newspaper–a.k.a. 20th Century FOX–hinges on whether or not they are able to reinject life into the STAR WARS franchise this

You can feel the change in the air, and it’s not merely because of wildfires and summer-like temperatures.  The number of media demises is also atypically high this week, and it’s not just among entities associated with CBS.  On a more personal level, this website’s section of brands I’ve been personally associated with took yet

I first met Michael Levitt under what some might call shotgun wedding circumstances.  My tenure at Game Show Network could best be described as nonstop confrontation.  I was recruited by a especially outspoken and passionate HR consultant who personally convinced our mercurial president and CEO that I was far and away the best person available