The 14% year-over-year decline in the number of new scripted series across live television networks and streaming represented the steepest drop-off in at least a decade, per FX Research. - Axios
"A new UCLA Labor Center study of (the theme park's) employees reveals that … 44% of the workers reported that they worried about being evicted from their homes, while more than half cut the size of their meals — or skipped them — because they didn’t have enough money for food." - The Hollywood Reporter
First of all, it's something that nobody wants to do. Yet the show's director, who makes the decision, has to balance the interests of winners, the producers, the network, the audience, and the advertisers. (And it's the poor stage manager who gets yelled at by the winners cut short.) - Vulture
Joining, say, Sally Field in Norma Rae or Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada, "actors in current Oscar-season movies enjoyed ample opportunity to wax eloquent via riled-up characters who simply cannot contain themselves any longer." - Los Angeles Times
Wenders, the German director whose latest film is nominated for an Oscar, but from Japan, says “For a long time I did not know , because I was searching for answers, too." - The Observer (UK)
In 2023, some DGA wins for Everything Everywhere All at Once seemed to set that film, and its directors, on a path to many wins at the Oscars. - The Hollywood Reporter
“It really just seems as if the studio’s leadership simply does not want [ streaming, or in theaters, or really even to be a topic of conversation at this point. … It’s hard to imagine this inspiring much confidence in the filmmakers still working with the studio." - The Verge
"There are repercussions in the real world where people might not even realize—they just know, Oh, an old song is popular again. But if they don’t use TikTok, they don’t realize that’s because thousands and thousands of people are using the song.” And now many songs are gone. - Slate
"In the 1990s, the halftime show started to draw more viewers than the game itself by featuring performances from the biggest pop artists in the world. … But it’s a short, high-risk, unpaid gig that offers little chance to demonstrate musicianship, while opening performers up to jokes, gaffes, and political approbation." - Quartz
"Not counting the short-lived 'popular film Oscar' which never came to be, this is the first time the Academy has added a category since Best Animated Feature Film was established in 2001. … The first statuette (for casting) will be presented starting with the 98th Academy Awards in 2026." - AP
"Cuban-American journalist and former Sundial host (Carlos Frías) filed a federal discrimination complaint Tuesday asserting that he and his staff experienced discrimination at the station, including being told by an editor that the show was 'sounding very Latino.'" The daily show was abruptly canceled last Friday, with its producers laid off. - Axios
"Wherever you get your podcasts" is a radical statement... the triumph of exactly the kind of technology that's supposed to be impossible: open, empowering tech that's not owned by any one company, that can't be controlled by any one company, and that allows people to have ownership over their work and their relationship with their audience. - Anil Dash
