Category: media

“My thinking is that I’ll stay on the air until the election because I really want to see how this will go. My feeling is, I have a number of ideas and I’m perfectly happy doing something different … where I’m not forced to get up at 5 a.m. every morning to prepare for a show. I’ve been doing that for 37 years. Maybe I’ll get to sleep until 7 or 7:30 a.m., like other people do.”

“[I] never developed much of a rooting interest in big-league sports. Instead, I fell in love with the ratings game – the sport – of network television. ABC, CBS, and NBC were my teams; their dozens of shows my players; the Nielsen chart the playing field.”

“Some have wondered whether there is a term for this post-binge separation. Allow me to suggest one: We have, to tweak a term from the glum in winter, Unseasonal Affective Disorder: post-binge malaise.”

“Yes, we actually looked at mid-century photographers who were photojournalists. A large part of them happened to be women, people like Ruth Orkin, Esther Bubley, Helen Levitt and then later Vivian Maier. These were photographers who were starting to experiment in color. So that gave me the idea of trying to reference a visualization of, let’s say, early Ektachrome, rather than Kodachrome, rather than color negative. And that’s why the colors have this kind of coolness/warm mixture.”

“When the moderator at a conference panel asked Sarandos if he was happy with the fact that a recent survey showed Netflix would have the second-biggest show on cable if its viewers were traditionally measured—right behind Thrones—Sarandos evasively asserted that internal research suggests a Netflix show would actually take that number one slot.”

“Star Wars fans are questioning why a Chinese poster for ultra-hyped new episode The Force Awakens has relegated British actor John Boyega to the supporting cast.”

“In the ‘Star Wars’ marketing machine, Rey sits front and center in the Drew Struzan posters like a yin and yang symbol, holding the balance between the dark and the light side. Where she’ll fall in this world we’re not certain, but we do know that her main priority in the film isn’t political reformation or treaties with the Trade Federation.”

Seriously, what do you do when you’re out of shows?