Archive for the 'Television' Category


HBO Max

This is what happens when you try to protect legacy partners. And when you let newbies run your business. Music was the canary in the coal mine for digital disruption. Not that anybody paid attention to what happened. The music business is seen as a poor stepsister run by street hustlers purveying substandard content. Everybody […]

Bill Burr On Netflix

Bill Burr: Paper Tiger | Official Trailer | Netflix Baba Booey told me to watch it. The news has got me depressed. I know, I know, you’re overloaded, you don’t want to hear my opinion, I get that. But you’ve got to read this story in the “New York Times,” “How Florida Republicans Are Talking […]

Mindhunter Season 2

It’s no “Spiral.” Thursday we finished season six of the French TV series. That’s 64 episodes, but who’s counting? It started with “A French Village.” That was 72 episodes. Bob Bookman recommended it. There were seven seasons, but now it’s finished. The war is over. We had to pay for MHz in order to see […]

VMA Ratings Hit An All Time Low

VMAs Hit All-Time Ratings Low for 3rd Straight Year The biggest winner Monday night? SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO! No one saw his tone-deaf monologue panned in every publication known to man. And the truth is, his audience agrees with him, millennials/Gen-Z are wankers. But the millennials/Gen-Z don’t care. Welcome to 2019, where there is no mass audience, […]