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Courage? Where?
It was a pretty busy weekend for our respective binary choice tickets. The big guns effectively chose their personal comfort zones. Madame Vice President stayed close to home and managed to coax $28 million more out of an entertainment industry that continues to fire staffers, move productions out of her home city, state and country
(Kinda) Live From New York, It’s (Still) Saturday Night!!!
The much-anticipated golden anniversary of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE kicked off last night , and you bet I watched. After all, unlike most of the folks who recently made a movie that celebrated that legacy, I was actually watching a half-century ago when it all began. So I guess I’m a creature of habit. These days,
Will, With Grace
I’ll confess, I’m predisposed to liking Will Ferrell. From Ron Burgundy to Alex Trebek to the CEO of Mattel, there has been nary a performance of his over the last 30 years that I’ve not at least chuckled at, if not burst into hysterics rewatching. And from all I have heard from my numerous well-heeled
Eye, There They Go Again.
Apparently, we can’t seem to go very long without some other negotiation between media companies being played out in the press. Last month, it was DirecTV and Disney, echoing the existential battle that Disney waged with Charter a year earlier. Yesterday, it was Paramount’s turn to revive its long-simmering feud with Nielsen, as VARIETY’s Brian
He Wrote The Book On Doing Business The Right Way. Again.
A long, long time ago I was considered a wunderkid, an overachiever who clawed his way into an executive position before my 30th birthday through tenacity, perseverance and yes, a little luck. Plus, I was known for winning a few bucks on a game show, which always provided some fodder for slightly more gentle teasing
A Complicated, Compelling ASS
Ryan Murphy and his team are no strangers to tackling stories of morally ambiguous and salacious protagonists. This has been particularly true with his series of AMERICAN STORIES that have cemented FX’s place in the entertainment ecosystem for such showcasings. AMERICAN HORROR STORY was the first of these anthologies, and was able to attract both
If You Look To Rebuild An Argument, Make Sure You’ve Got A Solid Foundation
It turns out our friend Evan Shapiro, who is rapidly becoming one of the more influential and honest brokers and truth-tellers of media measurement on the planet, had much more up his sleeve besides the fact checking of the latest Netflix data dump he promised last week. Yesterday, in what he announced as a preview
Can Old Be Both Bold And Gold?
Give CBS a huge standing ovation, even if it may cause you some aches and pains in the process. They’ve managed to add yet another subcategory to the overarching idea of a reboot and, in the process, kept the industry in the dark for months before springing a surprise that certainly was newsworthy. Since spring,
Ladies, Perhaps Your Credibility Gap Lies With The Enemy Within?
Whenever I encounter an unapolgetic Kamala Harris supporter more often than not it’s someone who by all accounts has upstanding moral values, often happily married or otherwise content in being unattached. And still more often than not if that supporter happens to be female, they typically will throw in several uncomplimentary observations about men, particularly