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Fox Studios Gets Lots of Improvements

Did you ever wonder what happened to the legendary Fox Studios after Disney acquired 21th Century Fox in 2019 for $71.3 billion? The studio lot is now set for a (…)

By |April 13th, 2023|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Status of Hollywood Sound Stages

FilmLA, a not-for-profit organization, and the official film office of the city and county of Los Angeles, has just released some figures for the production output in Hollywood.

Reviewing the 2021 (…)

By |April 10th, 2023|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Digital Is Costly. Being Entertained Is Expensive

The Internet is free and open. So goes the Putin-style propaganda line. Still, being entertained digitally is becoming costly, and soon enough, it’s going to be even more expensive.

Today, the (…)

By |April 6th, 2023|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

L.A. Screenings Exhibitors Rush to Find Suites

As per today 44 days before the start of the independent portion of L.A. Screenings 2023 on May 17 a total of 48 companies have already reserved suites (…)

By |April 3rd, 2023|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Streaming Ratings Are Not Linear

In the linear TV world, counting the “eyeballs” on any given show is relatively easy (although some viewers will always be missed, such as folks watching TV in places like (…)

By |March 30th, 2023|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

The Reckoning of Sports Cable TV Channels

Not too long ago, cable operators and sports network executives jointly opted to reject the idea of a-la-carte subscriptions, preferring instead to bundle them together in order to generate more (…)

By |March 27th, 2023|Categories: WaterCooler|1 Comment

Series Mania’s Explosive Growth

Series Mania should be renamed SeriesBazaar. Indeed, so crowded were the stairs that connected the four levels of its TV festival’s Lille, France venue, the Lille Grand Palais, that it (…)

By |March 23rd, 2023|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

All the Issues That Are Fit to Print

These days, there are so many problems floating around the industry that you might need to head on over to MIPTV and get a look at a printed edition of (…)

By |March 20th, 2023|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

70 Years of TV Series Set in Workplaces

Last month, The Wall Street Journal published a list of 25 TV shows that aired between 1970 and 2022 that were set in places of work, and VideoAge‘s Water Cooler (…)

By |March 16th, 2023|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Brand Advertising is Coming Back a Winner

American marketing pioneer John Wanamaker once said: “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. I just don’t know which half.” Here’s another quote, this time courtesy of Henry (…)

By |March 13th, 2023|Categories: WaterCooler|1 Comment