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It’s a pretty big week for whomever’s still left at Warner Brothers Discovery.  Arguably their most anticipated series of the year, Season Two of HOUSE OF THE DRAGONS, will debut on Father’s Day night for the first of eight episodes that are hoping to extend the lifespan of the GAME OF THRONES franchise that led

So Pat Sajak’s tenure as emcee of WHEEL OF FORTUNE has indeed come to an end.  Last night he bid farewell to the millions who still make watching the show a nightly habit, an event that received the kind of coverage normally reserved for the passing of a world leader.  Virtually every major media outlet

It hasn’t exactly been a stellar year for Disney on any level so far, and there isn’t an MCU franchise coming to the theatres this summer to kickstart it.  Judging by the ever-growing expectations and massive costs that have effectively doomed their most recent efforts to performances which the investment community has been left underwhelmed

It was yet another story of a change in management and direction of a struggling media company that VARIETY’s Ethan Shanfield authored yesterday, the kind that have become commonplace in recent years in an industry filled with underrealized expectations, splintering and the resulting necessity of truncation.  This one offered an opportunistic twist for its rank

I have a particular affinity for anyone who works in movie or TV production, and not just the folks in front of the cameras.  Some of the hardest-working people in any industry I’ve come across are those who labor intensively upon demand, work dawn till way past dusk under intense pressure almost every minute, and

Life seems to be an endless array of ironies at times.  Of all the days I could have chosen to make a return to the Paramount lot that I love so much (thank you yet again, Uncle Tommy), it’s one that will follow a potentially monumental day for the company.  By the time I get

Another media milestone was reached over the past weekend, but you’d be truly hard pressed to find any mention of it by even the most obsessive of observers.  Were it not for a few personal friends and former business colleagues with a soft spot for history, I probably wouldn’t have remembered, either. But there it

In Judaism, one of the ultimate acts of intimacy is to invite a stranger, or these days more like a casual acquaitance, into your home for a Passover seder.  For those unfamiliar with one, it’s indeed a religious service that’s segmented by a lengthy, often alcohol-infused meal, but it’s usually lead by the head of