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April showers bring May flowers, but April TV brings out the May Emmy contenders. While "sweeps" may no longer be a thing in the broadcast world, April and May are still two of the most significant months in the TV season in the U.S. This is primarily
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Weather-wise, March roars in like a lion, but when it comes to television, the first month of spring is traditionally a slow starter. There's a lot of reasons the TV schedule tends to shake out that way — the Academy Awards usually eats up the first or second weekend
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T.S. Elliot claimed April was the cruelest month, but by my watch, that honor should go to February, which is grey, cold, and dreary. The only thing this month has in its favor is that if it's going to be nasty and brutish, at least it'
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January 2025 has already had a very rough start. Destructive California wildfires, the death of creative legends, tech bros gone wild, freezing cold snaps ... Can Punxsutawney Phil just see his shadow now so there’s a mass excuse for us all to hide in our “burrows” for six more weeks?
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It's January 2025, which means the third decade of the 21st century is officially halfway over. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the platform launch that arguably kicked off the streaming revolution: YouTube. Yes, YouTube; the streaming platform was the initial way pirating TV series commercial-free became
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As 2025 rolls in and the 21st century settles down for the long haul of making it through the next 75 years, the entertainment landscape is also settling after a long period of upheaval that arguably began 20 years ago with the launch of YouTube in February 2005. We'
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We're ringing in the new year as 2024 finally sees itself out. We're halfway through the future's take on the Roaring 20s and a quarter of the way through the 21st century, making 2025 feel like a year of deep import. Whether the new
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December is upon us, and if you weren't ready for 2024 to be over, well, I can't help you; heck, I can't even get my stuff together, as evidenced by the fact that this post is going up five days after the first of
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Mike Leigh is probably the single greatest benefactor to Britain’s film history in the last fifty years, and yet the average British film fan may have only heard of a handful of his films. His background in Britain’s theater and teleplay scene in the 70s was predated by
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As we enter the mid-2020s and streaming rapidly becomes the default way viewers consume television, PBS has announced a deal with Amazon to make all PBS local station channels, 150+ stations in all, available for free. Over the next few months, Prime members will see their local PBS stations launch
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Let's talk turkey about November programming in the U.S., especially the schedule vis a vis linear networks and streaming services. The penultimate month of the year was always complex for TV broadcast networks, which had to work around Thanksgiving in America, and only America. That means streamers
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October is here, and along with it, the time of the year recently dubbed "Spoooooooky Season." (Ok, fine, it's Spooky Season, but I like all the extra "o"s.) Once upon a time, the Christmas holiday was the only major event that TV producers