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Sitcoms Don’t Have a Chance in 2025. Here’s a Way to Make Them Work.
A few things we've forgotten about making a new sitcom
Oct 28, 2025
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MS NOW: When Corporate Divorce Kills Cable News
If you need an acronym explanation in your rebrand announcement, you've already lost.
Aug 19, 2025
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James A. Brown
Byron Allen once tried to buy CBS. Now he gets its leftovers.
Late Night TV keeps shrinking
May 28, 2025
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The End of the Surplus Era
An introduction to the Reinvention Files
May 15, 2025
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Selling the Last Thing You Have Left
For her, OnlyFans was not a scandal. It was a pivot. A rational act in a collapsing media environment.
May 13, 2025
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The Chair Is Empty
"A man can draw millions and still vanish without noise. Holt isn’t fading. He’s just leaving a platform that already has."
May 8, 2025
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Nothing New Under the Sun: Beyond the Gates and the Shape of Things
Beyond the Gates is a triumph. It is a transaction. It is a gamble placed inside a system already cracking under its own weight.
May 1, 2025
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James A. Brown
When the Spotlight Finds You: Shannon Sharpe and the New Rules of Media Survival
Now that the allegations are louder, messier, and risk bleeding onto the Disney brand itself, the calculus has changed.
Apr 29, 2025
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