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Of Mice And Menches
Another Labor Day has come and gone, and once again so has the availability of the panoply of Disney-owned networks on a significant MVPD. Last year, Charter; this year, it’s DIRECTV. The leaves will soon turn, but the stomachs of many tech-simplistic fans of football, tennis and JEOPARDY! already have. As USA TODAY’s Mike Snider
It’s Feastival Season
I’ve always been at a crossroads when it comes to being tasked with analyses that have agendas attached to them. On many occasions, I was instructed by financial executives to do post-mortems on movies and shows that had just taken six and seven-figure hits to their bottom lines for costs associated with entries into festivals.
More Than Your Average Pool Party
It’s Labor Day Weekend, which likely means you’re in the majority of folks merely chilling, hopefully amongst people you love and ideally in an environment where you might be able to get a little sun and fun. I realize in this day and age for many that thought is an anethema. I’m told such folk
Couch Potatoes Across America, Your Season Has Begun
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, TheDoubleOvertime.com. Please visit it regularly for expanded coverage of sports, as well as feature articles from Binary Web. Forget what your calendar and thermometer might otherwise be telling you. Autumn has officially begun, and it’s not just because pumpkin lattes are back on Starbucks’ menus
Maybe This Is How Kevin Bacon Feels Every Day?
Most days, media headlines revolve around folks I’m familiar with but often never crossed paths with. Every now and then, someone who I do have a connection to will be in the news; lately such names tend to be part of long lists of those being laid off. But yesterday, two folks I have more
Gar(B)age Sale: Corner Melrose And Gower
My ex and I were often lax in keeping our home free of clutter. OK, we probably would have been considered prime candidates for the series HOARDERS. But even we would eventually reach a point where we’d be overwhelmed enough to hold a garage sale to get a little bit of extra cache out of
The Reason That Show You Loved Isn’t Coming Back? It Just Might Be You.
No, I didn’t miss the news that broke last week from Nielsen when it finally dropped their semi-timely monthly clickbait they call THE GAUGE. They’ve conditioned most mainstream media trade sites to hold a spot in their news cycles when it releases their information roughly three weeks into the following calendar month, ostensibly to include
Not Just Adam Ruins Everything
I had some mild awareness of Adam Conover before yesterday, though I was hardly a rabid fan. He fronted what truTV classified as a scripted comedy series called ADAM RUINS EVERYTHING for four years during an era where it ran in rotation with a host of clearly unscripted ones, the most successful being IMPRACTICAL JOKERS,
A Modest Proposal To Reward Streaming’s Four-Ces
I couldn’t get out of the way of the drumbeat and excitement that so many cultural pundits have been dropping in recent days about some highly anticipated returns of original streaming series that they’ve heretofore adored. I happen to be in the camp that adores Hulu’s ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING, if for no other