According to Abbott Elementary's Brittani Nichols, writers getting to produce episodes means something important, and it keeps the writers' room bonded, on track, and earning real credit for their work. - Slate
"Watching Tár, you’re likely to be spectacularly divided about what happens to Lydia. We experience it all through her eyes, and it’s the nature of that to feel pity and terror." But should we? - Variety
They've never been romantically linked, but they're good buddies - and it's obvious. "The genuine tenderness between them, undergirding even their tensest interactions, is ultimately what makes their co-starring turns so memorable." - The New York Times
A year after Alec Baldwin fired the gun whose bullet killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, a New Mexico prosecutor said in a statement, "No one is above the law and every victim deserves justice." - Los Angeles Times
The internet has always had an expansive capacity to reach some pretty strange and inexplicable places, but with the ever-evolving nature of social media, its strangeness is more readily available than ever before. - ArtsHub
This new era of instant, inexplicable attention has also come at a price. In interviews with more than three dozen TikTok creators, many noted that the app’s reach often brings with it relentless demands: from angry commenters, from audience expectations, even from the algorithm itself. - Washington Post
"A just-released study of public radio from National Trust for Local News ... shows that the medium is poised to fill the void left by other local news sources, based on its commitment to spending and hiring newspeople." - Inside Radio
“Is the Times always going to be fundamentally a news company expanding into these ancillary tech products?” she asked. “Or is it trying to morph into something like a tech company with an ancillary news product?” - Semafor
One has to wonder, with the cancellation of an institution like Neighbours, the moving of Days of Our Lives to streaming-only, and fading ratings for such stalwarts as EastEnders. Even telenovelas are starting to lose audiences in Latin America. However, the genre may not be disappearing as much as morphing. - BBC
“Ipsos' survey finds that affluents are spending significant time with audio, especially AM/FM radio. They report listening to the radio for 4 hours a week, an increase of around an hour from the pandemic-impacted years 2020 and 2021. - Inside Radio
The company added 2.4 million new subscribers in the September quarter, after having forecast a net gain of 1 million customers. The subscriber growth followed back-to-back quarters of customer defections that raised questions about Netflix’s ability to expand its user base amid increased competition. - The Wall Street Journal
Some argued that Netflix is leaving hundreds of millions in box-office receipts on the table with its current strategy of showing only select movies in a few hundred theaters for at most a few weeks before streaming them, according to people familiar with the matter. - The Wall Street Journal
"(The company has) added 2.4 million households to its subscriber base after two consecutive quarters of losses. Its reversal of fortunes is especially surprising given the cost of living crisis. ... But Netflix has been attempting to make the platform more enticing — starting with the way it packages its shows." - BBC
They say they're expected to show up for days on end, giving movie-quality line readings from a script on a spreadsheet they've only seen the night before. Lead actors get about $4,000, even for a game that ends up earning $400 million or more. - The Guardian
