Let’s get to the other side. After analyzing forty years’ worth of sitcom scripts and studio-audience laughter and applause levels, A.I. has unlocked the secret to comedy: fan-favorite characters entering the scene, over and over again. - The New Yorker
"The first mass job cuts at the ABC since 2020 will heavily impact the corporation’s arts coverage and, some argue, may put the corporation in breach of its own Charter, which requires it to 'encourage and promote the musical, dramatic and other performing arts in Australia'." - Limelight (Australia)
The ability to see something you hadn’t expected is what separates printed products from the internet. It’s why those who love magazines do so fiercely. And it’s why I’m conflicted by Midjourney Magazine. I want to like it. But it’s soulless. - Wired
They're saying that the Titanic itself never sank and there was insurance fraud, or that J.P. Morgan or the Rothschilds or the Jesuits ordered it sunk. "It becomes kind of deflating to see a lot of this junk coming out," says one historian of the ship. - The New York Times
Those were the heady days. But now, "the initial promise of streaming has given way to frustration and fatigue for consumers and creators alike. Peak TV is in retreat and in its place is a new era of discontent." - Los Angeles Times
"One of the places 3D seems to persist is in animated kids' movies, which is the last place it belongs. Why would you want to watch an explosively colorful world unfold while wearing sunglasses?" - NPR
Times have changed. "Spotify chief executive Daniel Ek conceded the firm had made some mistakes during the more than $1bn spending spree that followed its 2019 push to establish itself as a key player in the industry." - BBC
But MoviePass is different this time. The old company was thrilling if you liked going to a film a day - and it also collapsed in public, exciting, terrible ways. "The new MoviePass is more boring, which might be good." - Slate
"LGBT and black streamers say audiences who feel marginalised in other communities feel safest and happiest when they're playing horror games. And they believe the people who watch them online come for a sense of belonging they don't get anywhere else." - BBC
"Facebook's exit from news tracks tracks with a move toward TikTok and YouTube, and a worldwide decrease in commenting on and sharing news articles. That's one of the findings from Oxford's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in its 2023 Digital News Report." - Nieman Lab
As The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp turns 80, it's good that Prime Minister Winston Churchill didn't get his way after writing to his minister of information, "Pray propose to me the measures necessary to stop this foolish production before it gets any further." - BBC
In this country, nothing indicates cultural importance more than cash, and seeing this much of it handed out to creators of television said as much about the state of the art as it did about Rhimes’ and Murphy’s success within it. - Los Angeles Times
With movie ticket sales still lagging behind pre-pandemic highs, multiplex operators across Asia have begun deploying unconventional strategies to generate excitement and attract people back to the cinema. -
"During the height of the pandemic, the only real player (left) in the kid-centric terrestrial radio space, Radio Disney, quietly wound down. … Today's Tedium looks back at the many attempts to sell kids on radio — a market that has basically faded away by this point." - Tedium
SCPR, which operates the LAist website and LAist radio station (the NPR affiliate formerly called KPCC) as well as a podcasting studio, will eliminate 21 of its 175 staff positions due to a revenue shortfall attributed mainly to a cutback in advertising by Hollywood studios. - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
