Archive for the 'Television' Category


Mrs. Maisel Release Strategy

You give the audience what it wants. You don’t put the shareholders first, you don’t create your business plan in a vacuum, winners take direction from what is in the heads of consumers, and if they’re really savvy, they get ahead of the public and give them what they don’t even know they want, i.e. […]

The Super Bowl Halftime Show

It reflected the music of the players as opposed to the owners. If you search online you will find three responses to Sunday’s Super Bowl Dre extravaganza: 1. Best Super Bowl halftime show ever! 2. Okay, good to see hip-hop, it’s about time, but do all the acts have to be twenty or thirty years […]

In My Skin

Trailer: https://bit.ly/3slXasx It’s on Hulu. Unlike music, you can’t get all visual content in a single place for one low price. Instead, you have to subscribe to umpteen services, which nobody does. In truth streaming is a better model than cable, because subscribers don’t have to subsidize marginal channels with their money, and can pay […]

Aziz Ansari’s New Special

“Nightclub Comedian” trailer: https://bit.ly/3s0cgDU This is rarely laugh out loud funny but I recommend you watch it. It’s not much of a commitment, not even half an hour. But it’s loaded with truth. You might have read about the comments re Aaron Rodgers. And they’re pretty good, but I’m not sure I like Ansari’s perspective […]