arts and culture
2024 streaming biz: Bracing for AI and deregulation as the media challenge
December 17, 2024The main story in streaming and in television is the new preponderance of Artificial Intelligence, as its use by the film and television industry threatens not only employees but also the older established moguls’ and brands’...
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2024’s top 30 (and 5 worst) global television series: The pickings get slimmer (2)
December 16, 2024Here are more examples of the best and worst in global television this year.
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‘Landman’ series a propaganda promo show for fossil fuel industry
December 12, 2024Billy Bob Thornton has thrown in his lot with the powers that be, the rich and powerful, the corporate interests of Big Oil.
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2024’s top 30 (and 5 worst) global television series: The pickings get slimmer (1)
December 11, 2024It’s been a strange television season. The general trend, continuing from last year, is trimming and cutting back as the streamers realize that streaming, though here to stay, is not the manna from heaven they thought...
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‘The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane’: Documentary on a progressive culture superwoman
December 10, 2024The world will have an opportunity to learn about this extraordinary human being, thanks to this seminal film and the efforts of those who knew and loved her.
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