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If I am your ideal Oscar viewer, who is not currently likely to watch the show or see all the movies, how can The Academy and the Oscar participants…

Feb 21

What spurred this column is that a lot of network-originated television writers have moved to streaming and we are seeing more and more shows that…

Feb 19

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If you are now interested in discussing the details of award season marketing, here is the rule on events, as found in The Academy’s Campaign…

Feb 2

I wasn’t going to write about this, but the coverage of Comcast’s quarterly, released yesterday, is irking me… so a brief look… Cable continues to show…

Jan 26

Being the piano player in the whore house doesn’t make you a bad piano player. It doesn’t make you a whore. It doesn’t make you a bad person. (I will…

Jan 11

“And if it’s not right You have to put it right." Lyrics from Matilda The Musical, which I reviewed on Monday. Then this morning (Wednesday), I linked…

Dec 28, 2022

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