Category: media

“Diversity increases the chance Fox will pick up a new show, promote it, syndicate it and see it do well with audiences.”

“When the Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef came back on the air late last month, everyone wondered whether he would have the courage to mock the army and its leader, Gen. Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi, as he once did the Islamists and former President Mohamed Morsi – and whether he’d get away with it.”

“In evaluating whether a film is feminist, it’s perhaps most important to understand that the question of whether a film itself is feminist is often confused with the question of whether it is sexist, whereas in reality the absence of the one does not imply the presence of the other.”

“In my experience–which when it comes to binge watching, as should be clear, is vast–no matter how good a show is, there comes a point when I have seen too much of it. I get that particular sofa malaise.”

“Nearly 30 years after The Cosby Show debuted, Cosby has re-teamed with one of that series’ executive producers, Tom Werner, to develop a family comedy that he says ‘would [satisfy] the people who have come to me in public places and said, ‘Can’t you put something on that I can watch?'”

“The final rental at the once-ubiquitous video rental chain took place in Hawaii at 11 p.m. local time November 9. The moment was captured in a photograph for posterity, though posterity probably won’t spend a lot of time looking at it.”

“Gay characters are being woven into the stories of games, and production companies are increasingly reaching out to LGBT gamers in their marketing. Even though The Last of Us‘ Bill suggests that romance ‘is good for one thing: getting you killed,’ video-gaming companies are starting to realize that it might also be good for business.”

“The authors found that episodes of gun violence in PG-13 rated films had been rising since the rating was introduced in the mid-1980s, and it now surpasses the violence in R-rated films, which are technically not open to young viewers unless they are accompanied by an adult.”

“The sessions appeared to have the most striking effect on people with moderate to severe dementia, with patients scoring higher on cognitive and drawing tests, and also on a satisfaction-with-life questionnaire at the end of the study.”