Hi hello. The Tigers can clinch a playoff berth today! with: a win AND a HOU loss

“We have received thoughtful feedback from viewers, advertisers and community leaders” = sponsors of Sinclair stations were being called out and worried about losing money

Boy, that Lions game on Monday night was sure fun

Tough inning for #Tigers. Cleveland hasn’t hit the ball out of the infield, yet has scored 3 runs. (Also, David Fry got hit in the face. Hope he’s all right. But that may have rattled Skubal.)

Little bit of breathing room 😅

Back in my Bless You Boys days, I would’ve gone on and on about the Tigers letting the Guardians off the hook there. Bases loaded, one out = no runs 👎 #CaptainObvious

No apologies to my neighbors for the noise I made for this touchdown!

Damn, that Mahogany facemask probably cost #Lions a touchdown.

If the Lions lose this game, I’m going to be rewinding that Tyler Loop field goal all night. Looked like he missed!

Brian Branch penalized for getting his head bent forward painfully, apparently… ?

From the broadcast: The last time the Ravens allowed a 95+-yard touchdown drive was 2001. The Lions have done it twice tonight.

Ben Johnson liked that play!

DAVID. MONTGOMERY. Love that guy!

IN MY VEINS

GOAL LINE STAND. Man, gotta love the way #Lions are playing.

WHAT. A. DRIVE. 98 yards. Nearly 10 minutes off the clock. Ends with a touchdown. #LIONS

Almost in time for Charlie Morton to have traveled with the Braves leaving Detroit…

Tuesday’s monologue should be a good one!

This has been my favorite comic book this year. So much fun and a joy to look at.

James Gunn showing off his new Superman script and the Grogu trailer on the same Monday has me tingly.

There’s Grogu with our Monday morning? This is the way!

Yikes. #Tigers still nursing a hangover from getting swept by the Guardians?

CBS is celebrating the 50th anniversary of THE NFL TODAY on Sunday. Rich Podolsky wrote an excellent book on the history of the show, which I interviewed him about four years ago.

Sinclair just made the jump to ludicrous speed ⚡

The Kimmel video: "The MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it."

New in @status.news: Here's what happened inside Disney/ABC after FCC Chair Brendan Carr's overt threat against Jimmy Kimmel that led to the late-night host being pulled from air. www.status.news/p/jimmy-kimm...

The WGA’s statement on ABC’s decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

Just for the record I was saying this before they canceled Jimmy Kimmel lol 🤪

Very important: Jimmy Kimmel Live has NOT been canceled. Did the odds of that happening go way up today? Sure. Ditto the chances of Kimmel deciding to walk over how this has played out. But despite Trump celebrating and some here mourning, as of 7:22 p.m. PDT, JKL has not been axed.

reminder: Jimmy Kimmel is enough of a mensch that he devised a segment on which actors who are just short of having enough work to qualify for union healthcare come on his show and deliver a single line of dialogue deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...

As we’ve reported before at @rollingstone.com, trump and his gang plotted to use the federal government against his enemies in late night tv even before he was reelected. Now…. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

there are much worse problems. that said, as someone who loves writing reviews & has written thousands & is proud of that & thinks reviews are important, seeing culture coverage, critics & reviews constantly take it on the chin for the past decade--esp last few years--has been really fucking hard.

Fantastic essay by @moryan.bsky.social on Just What the Hell is Happening Right Now with culture writing being increasingly devalued and the heightened insanity of social discourse.

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

Arts criticism is vitally important, whether it's for TV, movies, comic books, or anything else. It's more than a binary good/bad; it's a way of contextualizing the emotional, political, or other themes of a piece as well as laying out connections and comparisons through deep historical knowledge.

Based on ALIEN: EARTH, the doctors on the Maginot 95 years from now don’t either…

Sometimes I get asked if there is an equivalent to Roger Ebert today. I tell them yes, there is, but he's in television criticism, and his name is Alan Sepinwall.

Rolling Stone just also lost a great politics writer, Asawin Suebsaeng, and then they FIRED Sepinwall. Best in the game. Do those chucklefucks at RS think I'm gonna subscribe for whatever aggregated chum they post every day? Incredibly, spectacularly unserious.

Right. None of the three writers did anything to directly relate to them losing their jobs. This was a decision by the publication or parent company. I realized the difference when I wrote the post but since the end result is the same, I just kept it that way.

people have already mentioned SNEAKERs, THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR and of course ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN as great redford performances, let me recommend THE CANDIDATE, which is really one of the best movies ever made about american politics

Robert Redford’s work toward the end of his career was some of his most intriguing. All Is Lost, The Old Man & The Gun, Pete’s Dragon — and a great Marvel villain in Alexander Pierce! So many great roles like Roy Hobbs, The Sundance Kid, Bob Woodward, Johnny Hooker.

Don’t forget: @swin24.bsky.social Asawin Suebsaeng and Andrew Perez just bailed out of RS. It’s really too bad. The publication was doing good journalism.

Alan is one of my closest friends (not just in the work-friends way), and a great critic, and a person practically everybody in TV knows, and an incredibly prolific hard worker who produces a mind-boggling quantity of good stuff. Find him continuing in those capacities at alansepinwall.ghost.io.

Rolling Stone fired Alan Sepinwall, Status’ Oliver Darcy reports. That’s probably the end of my subscription.

I certainly would not have predicted a One Battle After Another mash-up ad with Peyton Manning. Weird and clever enough to get some attention, though. Hope video pops up later.

The Washington Post continues to trip over its feet.

I'm pretty sure that @karenattiah.bsky.social is the first @washingtonpost.com journo to be fired for expressing herself since the current craziness set in. Everyone else has quit in protest. Seems like Post staff members ought to take some sort of dramatic action, no?