THB #604: Showbiz News Desert

It struck me as I was driving home from one of so many screenings this last few weeks that it feels like forever since I wrote an in-depth number-crunching piece. That’s so unlike me.

The thing is, math feels irrelevant right now.

Math is not as exciting as a strike or a medical plague.

Math demands that people be serious and make an uncomfortable level of effort to fully understand the text and the subtext.

We are at a moment when the travails of Paramount… the questions about Warner Bros Discovery… the eventual replacement for Bob Iger at Disney… the disposition of Hulu… the endless & hysterical assumptions that Comcast will expand by acquisition… all pretty well played out and at this point, really boring.

The well for gossip is kinda empty.

Yeah, Belloni can always dial up some “really important” battle within the agency world. Agents and execs are still whispering in his ear, expecting him to get the names spelled right while understanding almost nothing more than an inch deep.

Ever…