My family gets me.

You are getting a live preview of this as streamers “reinvent” weekly drops of series that return in less than a year with seasons of 15+ episodes. Just straight up looking in the camera and marveling at this “hole in the market” that’s actually the shallow grave they shoveled TV into for 8 years.

This is the damage we suffered from the LA rain storm. Positively Shane Blackian.

My family gets me.

Not a fan of this rain.

I aspire to Dan Tana’s level of ‘70s ski sweater game.

Have a groovy Christmas, from Dan Tanna! Using ski footage from an episode of Charlie’s Angels.

Five perfect films in no particular order: The Dirty Dozen Jaws Die Hard Zodiac Top Gun: Maverick

I aspire to Dan Tana’s level of ‘70s ski sweater game.

Thomas Jane will be playing a "young" Bones McCoy in the Strange New Worlds series finale, even though he's a decade older than DeForest Kelley was when Star Trek debuted in 1966.

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

Have not been able to speak with anyone on the show yet. But FWIW, I have heard from three different people at CBS News who said the "60 Minutes" decision happened because of the show's decision to stick with a final edit CBS News execs disagreed with. But that's just the word in the newsroom.

Obscure TV alert! PREY is on Tubi. It aired on ABC in 1998, lasting only 13 episodes. Debra Messing plays an anthropologist who discovers a secret race of superhuman sociopaths.

Obscure TV alert! PREY is on Tubi. It aired on ABC in 1998, lasting only 13 episodes. Debra Messing plays an anthropologist who discovers a secret race of superhuman sociopaths.

I see people hoping HBO or a US company takes over Heated Rivalry next season so it has a bigger budget & is Emmy-eligible, so I’d like to emphasize Jacob Tierney’s answer re: what would have happened if it had been made by a US company, based on what was said to him when he was pitching it.

on the first day of christmas my true love gave to me

This is a very generous depiction of what Kermit and Piggy's kids would actually look like.

That WONDER MAN show looks cool, but he better be in a red safari jacket at some point.

Really excited about Arrow's upcoming release of Salem's Lot. They've included the TV and theatrical versions. Bill Ackerman and I provided a commentary track to the TV version! So much David Soul. ❤️ You can get all the details at the link below. Due in March: www.arrowvideo.com/p/17656354/

If you know me, then you know two of my favorite things in entertainment are Zooey Deschanel and assassin stories. Today, finally, it all comes together in my new short story. www.jerseydevilpress.com?page_id=9120

I had the pleasure of reading an advance copy of this and it’s GREAT. If you love gritty period crime stories, check this out.

After 20+ years, and despite how often I advocate outlining, I’ve finally accepted that my process is to get impatient and then toggle back and forth between script and outline until the thing is finally done.

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

My son wants to watch football and I want to watch a movie so we compromised with THE LAST BOY SCOUT.

My son wants to watch football and I want to watch a movie so we compromised with THE LAST BOY SCOUT.

first snow of the year means posting this poor kid who just wanted to crank it and wound up on the news

I miss proper send-offs.

Good god, I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time! My dear friend ERIN CAHILL – Hallmark Christmas superstar - joins me at the 5AM StoryTalk Podcast to talk life, art as a form of service to something greater, and why the Countdown to Christmas has become such a cultural phenomenon.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…

Whoa! There’s a HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET retrospective at next year’s ATX TV Festival. I might have to finally make it out there.

I just finished LUDWIG, a delightful comedic mystery show. It’s about a socially awkward puzzle designer who secretly assumes the identity of his missing twin brother — a Detective Inspector. It’s funny and inventive and the episodic cases are fantastic little puzzles. It’s streaming on BritBox.

Unfortunately I did not pay for Premium Grandma w/out Ads and had to settle for free Grandma, and she starts every conversation telling me it would be cool if I got a job with ICE.

My friend @aceatkins.bsky.social talks to the @ocregister.bsky.social about how author Ralph Dennis helped inspire his new novel EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD. www.ocregister.com/2025/12/10/h...

3) The effort is the juice! The effort is the high! Mastery of a skill is an unparalleled buzz. "Having written" is nice yes, we all joke about that, but *the making is the pleasure*. Men who've never experienced that, trying to steal it because ironically *they do not know its value*, is a sin.

DARK PASSAGE

Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.

I appreciate that Stranger Things 5 chose to layer in a positive conversation that absolutely could not have happened between two midwestern queer kids in 1987. If we can save Sharon Tate and murder the Nazis, we can give queer Xers the childhood affirmation they didn't receive.

For those willing to make the commitment, the American Cinematheque @amcinematheque.bsky.social is going to screen all 48 episodes of TWIN PEAKS twice every Tuesday night at the Los Feliz 3 which will take the entire year.

I've been a drama writer for 25+ years. Today I'm diving into my first half-hour single cam comedy pilot. #scriptsky

tom cotton looks and sounds like a guy that holt mccallany would have tried to kick the shit out of on MINDHUNTERS

Hey @patcasey.bsky.social — I overheard some parents talking at a Little League game today about how much they loved Violent Night and they wished there was a sequel. I got to deliver the good news to them!

Rereading a lot of Parker’s Spenser books and realizing that if it wasn’t for Parker I would be making comics. I did these doodles over a decade ago and shared with Ace atkins who was writing Spenser-that led to making Nick travers comics and my career

Imagine if the merger kills the HARRY POTTER TV show and all those people showed their whole ass for nothing

Congratulations, David Zaslav, on being the most destructive force in US entertainment in the entire history of show business

I just heard from someone at Netflix. TCM is apparently going with the other linear networks to Discovery Global. Here is the official comment on what WBD assets will be acquired by Netflix: "We are acquiring the film and television studios, HBO and HBO Max."

⭐️ DONNA TROY ⭐️

This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.