Month: January 2019

The Year of the Pop Culture Finale

We’ve just said goodbye to 2018 and now it’s time to consider all that we’ll be saying goodbye to in 2019. We’re talking about TV and film properties here, kids. So many series that we’ve loved and are about to lose:

by Germain Lussier

The new year has only just begun but it’s already got us thinking about the end. Over the course of the next 12 months, fans are going to see the end of some of the biggest franchises and shows of all time. Let’s take a look at which pop culture favorites are wrapping up in 2019. read article

Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #27 – ‘Miracle Working’

THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to  the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.

In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned.

Oh, and if y’all detect any irony, please believe me when I say it comes straight from the universe and not your kindly Uncle Larry B. read article

John Ostrander: The (Im)Possibilities of Christmas

NOTE FROM LB: Exhausted human beings that we at TVWriter™ are, we were vacationing (in my case lying in bed trying to catch up on some of the sleep I lost for a variety of reasons last year) Christmas week and missed the chance to publish John’s Christmas column at the appropriate time. Here it is now, in all its nostalgic glory. Thanks, John, for making me smile:

by John Ostrander

“There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,” returned the nephew. “Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that—as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!” read article

Most Viewed TVWriter™ Posts of the Week – Jan 7, 2019

Happy Monday everybody!

Hope you have had a great weekend. It’s time now for TVWriter™’s latest look at our most popular blog posts of the week ending yesterday. They are: read article

Most (& Least) Watched TV Networks of 2018

Don’tcha love end-of-the-year roundups and stats? Us too. Like these:

by Michael Schneider

A few years ago, the joke among network TV execs was that “flat is the new up” — meaning that you could tout victory if your network had managed to at least hold steady and not lose more viewers. read article