The concept of entrainment points to the ways in which our experience of time can be affected by so much more than the number of hours we have in a day. - The New York Times
Priyanka Chopra says that in a 20-year career, "I've never had pay parity in Bollywood. I would get paid about 10% of the salary of my male co-actor," and that the first time she got equal pay was for her work on the series Citadel in the US. - BBC
Director general Tim Davie: "Imagine a world that is internet-only, where broadcast TV and radio are being switched off and choice is infinite. A switch-off of broadcast will and should happen over time, and we should be active in planning for it." - The Guardian
The CRTC's moves toward greater flexibility for radio include introducing new criteria to determine whether a song is Canadian, including refining content categories to widen the eligible songs stations can play to meet Canadian content requirements. - Inside Radio
NBCUniversal, Paramount Global and Walt Disney together own dozens of underperforming cable networks that are quickly losing relevance in the age of streaming. - Variety
“It was our belief that cord-cutting losses would be offset by gains in streaming. This has not been the case. We are primarily a content company and the mechanisms for the monetization of content are in disarray.” - The Hollywood Reporter
It’s a story about how to structure a company like Disney. Then you add in the complexity of the shift to streaming, the future of TV and movies generally, and the gigantic reputation of a character like Bob Iger, who many people think could plausibly run for president. There’s just a lot going on here. - The Verge
"Dozhd — also known as TV Rain — had been fined earlier this month for airing a map labeling Crimea as Russian territory, and calling Russian forces 'our army.'" The head of Latvia's broadcast regulator attributed the revocation to "threats to national security and public order. ... Everyone should respect Latvian law." - Politico
This week the company launches ITVX, a free, ad-supported streaming service. The plan is to offer 10,000 hours of content, including new material, in order to attract more viewers (and charge more for ads), but some observers think ITVX could simply cannibalize the network's existing broadcast audience. - The Hollywood Reporter
"For all the clouds of publicity, moviemaking is an artisanal business with a craft base. How you light, shoot, edit, even make deals — all these things have more in common with candle-making and knitting than they do with creating art in the romantic, visionary sense." - The New Yorker
FRAN uses this information to come up with a prediction about which areas of a real person’s face would age and how and then overlays the new details onto video footage. The result is “the first practical, fully-automatic and production-ready method for re-aging faces in video images.” - The Verge
"Though the first Avatar was the world’s top-grossing movie not once, but twice, reclaiming the title from Avengers: Endgame after a 2021 rerelease in China, its most oft-cited claim to fame is its surprising lack of cultural impact." Why? - The New York Times
Trendy? Flat characters (yes, even more so than the straight characters in the heterocentric holiday movies)? Or something that shows networks' long-awaited embrace of Christmas movie equality? - Washington Post
Doesn't seem super likely. But: "If there’s a Best Actor race worth trying to sneak into, it’s this one, and Smith has been careful to cut a penitent figure on the campaign trail." - Vulture
