Before any of this, WB Discovery announced they were going to spin off the non-HBO and TCM cable networks to a separate company. That’s still the plan and will probably wrap up before Netflix gets the studios and HBO/HBO Max. TCM is in limbo at the moment, from what I understand.

More than once! I think superhero stories are kind of their own thing anyway. Also: “Heroes” wasn’t even the best *NBC* pilot that season, when “Friday Night Lights” premiered a week later.

Impressive in that every single thing in that headline is wrong.

Oh for sure. Only measuring discourse, not impact.

I realize I’m yelling at clouds a little here, and change is inevitable and all that. But it’s disconcerting and dispiriting that everything is subsumed to capital.

Too easy, plus I would like to think GDT would approve of the Corman reference.

Absolutely - that’s one of the things that really, morbidly fascinates me.

And the Mummy guys!

I should note here that while I put up the (artificial, pre-lit) tree and assist in all this, @lisamtp.bsky.social is the primary decorator and does a damn great job every year.

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