Snarky title? Listen pal, I could have put EACH WORD in quotes.
Still, it’s pretty slim pickins around these parts for non-strike-related stories, so I’m happy to pass along a little press-release goodness to y’all. When the Golden Globes air next January 13, one highlight you can expect is watching Steve Spielberg accept the Cecil B. [...]

Box Office Weekly #092 (MP3 - 15 MB - 22 min)
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In today’s show: Daytime drama generates real life drama… The cast is always the last to know… and in this week’s commentary, I reduce the writer’s strike to a cheap, dirty punchline! All this and you CAN release a Christmas movie too early, today [...]

TPN Audience Survey 2007
It’s that time of the year again when we ask you, our most loyal and lovable audience, to spend ten minutes of your life answering a bunch of questions about what makes you tick. We do this in the hope that this information (all anonymous of course) will encourage advertisers to increase [...]

Let’s face it, there isn’t a lot of show business news lately. The first casualty of a writer’s strike is activity. So I have been thinking a lot about the strike, why they’re doing it, who are the villans, why should we all care. I swear to you, I’ll do my damnedest to make it [...]

Over the weekend, writers for LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN, having nothing better to do, started a blog about the strike. In some cases, it illustrates that Late Show writers may suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder:
HERE’S HOW YOU CAN TELL YOU’RE READING TOO MUCH STRIKE COVERAGE.
• IF YOU NO LONGER CRINGE WHEN [...]

I was channel-surfing a few evenings ago and I landed on “Hannah Montana” on the Disney Channel. Moments later saw something really weird.
I don’t follow this particular show, but much like High School Musical I’m kind of in awe of it. It’s got that hyperactive Disney synergy going. “Hannah Montana” hinges on a cute [...]

First of all Hey Rooster! Watch HOUSE much?
I have to stand up for the writers here on non-devils-advocate grounds. Writers are almost certainly the most powerful group in Hollywood while simultaneously the worst at wielding power. It’s fascinating and weird, how little weight those guys throw around normally. Of course, this is due to the [...]

The following is an exercise in forensics. Not the gory “CSI” type, the talky sort of exercise.
I’m going to take a viewpoint and elaborate on it. I do not necessarily hold this viewpoint, but I think any reasonably intelligent person can see both sides of any argument and defend either effectively. It’s Speech and Debate [...]

Had to fly into Los Angeles yesterday for a meeting. It was with a Veteran Producer who was more comfortable going face-to-face about DVD design issues than conducting business over the phone of via emailed pictures.
But this meeting was in the afternoon, and I was in town mid-morning. So I put on my blogging journalist [...]

Box Office Weekly #091 (MP3 - 16 MB - 23 min)
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In today’s show: Writers on strike; no write words!… and in this week’s commentary, the bright side! All this and well, I can’t cross the picket line to tell you, today on Box Office Weekly.
By the way, I think this is probably the best [...]