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Back In The Cockpit Again?
You may have noticed that a disproportionate number of musings of late have tended to be on the negative side, and you’re not wrong to criticize me for it. But facts are what facts are and when one sees an industry that continues to be defined by audience erosion, fractionalization and corporate contraction it’s hard
TCA Or Not, John Landgraf’s Again A January Headline.
Once upon a time in Hollywood there was a winter ritual that was way more predictive of a robust summer than even Punxsutawney Phil would offer a coupla thousand miles to the East–the Television Critics Association winter tour. It would be roughly around this time of year where TV critics, especially those from far more
Maybe To You It’s Not Quite TV. But There Are Clearly More Of Them That Think It Is.
Back when I was a youth we took our lead from Britain for pretty much everything artistic. Were it not for them, I wouldn’t have had the privilege of experiencing The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and the mini-skirt (well, looking at it). For that matter, go back a generation and you wouldn’t have had the
Here’s At Least One Voice Worth Amplifying. Your Turn Now.
Whenever these musings turn political I know I’m veering into territory that makes many of my existing and aspirational readers uncomfortable. And while I confess there’s a lot I still don’t know about this so-called “content creation” world I do know enough that being authentic and true to your beliefs is critical to making any
Ain’t No Shiny Floor In Sight
For the past several years, save for that COVID thingy, my longest-tenured friend and I have had a standing lunch date with a far more seasoned one to celebrate the “anniversary” of when we all met. That happened to be at a taping of a network game show he was executive producing, a tale we
The Golden Globes Were One Battle After Another. Including A Few Better Left Unwaged.
I’ve had a love/hate relationship with the GOLDEN GLOBES ever since I was fortunate enough to attend a couple in person and to be part of history at once particularly game-changing one where Michael Chiklis stunned the experts and even us colleagues by copping a Best Actor upset and giving me the one chance I’ve
They’re Dropping This Mic.
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site The Double Overtime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional essays on business and technology. Yes, I’m well aware it’s still very much winter and football season, and if we needed any reinforcement of that three of the last
The Newest KKK. Arguably Scarier Than The Last.
Since I decided to immerse myself in whatever one might dub this series of musings, I have learned that ofttimes there are really only two basic kinds of responses to whatever has happened to inspire them–you laugh or you cry. I frequently use what I consider to be humor to deflect from some of the
The Pendulum Pivots Back To THE PITT. And An Otherwise Forgotten Genre.
It was just about a year ago when we mused quixotically about HBO MAX’s THE PITT. When S1E1 dropped it drew plenty of comparisons to ER due to its pedigree and casting. Over the course of that season and beyond it began to mirror the former show more and more in terms of accolade and