Culture
2024 streaming biz: Bracing for AI and deregulation as the media challenge
December 17, 2024The main story in streaming and in television is the new preponderance of Artificial Intelligence, as its use by the film and television industry threatens not only employees but also the older established moguls’ and brands’...
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2024’s top 30 (and 5 worst) global television series: The pickings get slimmer (2)
December 16, 2024Here are more examples of the best and worst in global television this year.
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Churchill at War: Not my anti-fascist hero!
December 13, 2024I’ll stick with my own anti-fascist heroes, starting with the veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
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‘Landman’ series a propaganda promo show for fossil fuel industry
December 12, 2024Billy Bob Thornton has thrown in his lot with the powers that be, the rich and powerful, the corporate interests of Big Oil.
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2024’s top 30 (and 5 worst) global television series: The pickings get slimmer (1)
December 11, 2024It’s been a strange television season. The general trend, continuing from last year, is trimming and cutting back as the streamers realize that streaming, though here to stay, is not the manna from heaven they thought...
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