Dennis Broe
LATEST ARTICLES BY Dennis Broe
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Series TV biz 2025: Unstoppable AI? Trump’s onslaught on European regulations?
April 23, 2025The possible “end of peak TV” and Trump’s tariffs are having major effects on the global industry, workers, and the entertainment landscape as a whole.
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Depleting the Dallas Mavericks: A tale of greed, gambling, and avarice
April 15, 2025A study has shown that money for sports gambling is principally not coming from prior winnings but rather from day-to-day expenditures and contributing to increased bankruptcies, inability to pay loans, and exorbitant debt collection fees.
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The crime novel 2025: Expanding and contracting at the same time
April 11, 2025
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‘Adolescence’: TV vérité masterpiece or just adolescent?
April 9, 2025Adolescence: Not a TV vérité masterpiece but simply “posh” pretentiousness.
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Steven Knight: Poet of the Savagery of British capitalism
March 19, 2025Stephen Knight, through a series of series, has charted the brutality of the British ruling class in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Social Democratic Vienna vs. ever more rapidly liberalizing Paris
March 14, 2025With European sovereignty under attack from Donald Trump and his national security plunderers, er, advisors—will Denmark eventually capitulate to the orange monster’s protection racket threat to take over Greenland?
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The Dark Ages are here again
January 9, 2025The latest Harry Palmer L.A. mystery thriller, The Dark Ages, is about censorship and repression in Hollywood in 1951 and its echo in America and the West today.
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Lear on the highway: Albert Maltz’s ‘The Journey of Simon McKeever’
December 18, 2024The scriptwriter, novelist, and blacklisted member of the Hollywood Ten Albert Maltz was around 40 himself when he wrote his novel on aging, The Journey of Simon McKeever, first published in 1949.
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