Amazon is entering The 1% Club.
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Editors note: Susanne Daniels is the former Global Head of Original Content at YouTube and onetime president of MTV Networks, Lifetime Television Networks and The WB Network (now The CW). She is currently an adjunct professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
With the writers’ strike finally coming to an end, it strikes me that this may be a good opportunity to consider adjusting the process by which “Hollywood” evaluates what new films and TV shows should get the greenlight. Somehow in the ever-evolving pitch process, we seem to have replaced curiosity, collaboration and civility with a cool “show me what you got” attitude. It’s worth rethinking how to approach working with the creative community moving forward.
For over 30 years I have worked as a media executive. Recently I’ve been teaching a course at the UCLA Anderson school about the streaming business. During the strike, I’ve had the opportunity to reflect and listen carefully to many friends and past colleagues talking about their experiences as writer-producers. They share a common story of industry buyers pressing their singular point of view in the process, effectively diluting the writers’ original voice and vision. Remember when one of the advantages of working at a streamer was “less interference?” Streamers, networks and studios alike seem to be inappropriately overstepping and in turn demoralizing the creative partners they work with, even those they have identified as potential or returning hit-makers.
I was lucky enough to start my career as an assistant to Lorne Michaels. In addition to watching Lorne break new characters each week on SNL, I got a front-row seat to the development of an unconventional sketch show called The Kids in the Hall.
Amazon is entering The 1% Club.
EXCLUSIVE: Roku this past weekend saw the fruits from its big push into Spanish original content as the Greice Santo-created music reality series, Serenata de las Estrellas, notched the streamer’s biggest opening weekend by reach for any Spanish-language Roku Original.
Bethesda Softworks, announced his retirement today (October 16).Hines was hired in 1999 and originally he was in charge of writing manuals for Bethesda’s roster of titles, before becoming more and more instrumental to the marketing and public relations for launches.“After 24 years, I have decided my time at Bethesda Softworks has come to an end. I am retiring and will begin an exciting new chapter of my life exploring interests and passions, donating my time where I can, and taking more time to enjoy life,” he said in a statement to X (fka Twitter).“This was not a decision I came to easily or quickly, but after an amazing career, culminating in the incredible launch of Starfield, it feels like the time is right,” he continued.He added that he will still be an active part of the global Bethesda fanbase, who he described as an “incredible community”.Concluding, he said that he is intensely proud of those he worked with during his two decades at Bethesda Softworks, and that he will be waiting for whatever is next for the developer with “genuine excitement”.Bethesda Softworks addressed Hines’ retirement in its own message: “Pete’s public presence was only a small part of his role at Bethesda, although the way he represented us carried over into the values he nurtured here: authenticity, integrity and passion.“His contributions have been integral in building Bethesda and its family of studios into the world-class organization that it is today.
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Editors note: On October 10, Deadline posted a story summarizing a Medium column written by Jim McKairnes, a former SVP Planning for CBS who’s spent the past 13 years teaching TV history at the college level. The title of his piece was “Scheduling a TV Memoriam: An RIP Of Sorts for a Once-In-Demand Television Industry,” which, among other things, said that scheduling “is the word that’s slowly becoming irrelevant to the medium, having less and less meaning as television itself comes to mean more and more.”
from.“My parents both pursued their passions. Each in their own way, they were so clear about what they wanted to contribute to the world. And it was always about making it better.
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“Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me” (Hachette) that Elton became friends with a youngwoman named Linda Woodrow, and that he somehow came to see it as more than just a friendship.“At a time when he was unsure of his own sexual orientation and how to distribute his pent-up love, it was extraordinary to watch him approach a traditional heterosexual dance,” Taupin writes. “I truly don’t think he knew what hit him and was just swept up in the accepted normality of it all.”But Elton couldn’t hide the truth of his own sexuality from himself for long.“It all changed with an intervention after Elton, in a staged cry for help, opened all the windows, stuck his head in the gas oven, and awaited a dramatic response,” writes Taupin.“Perhaps due to the unorthodox nature of the attempt, gas on low and an embroidered pillow to rest his head on, sympathy was not forthcoming.
The Young and The Restless is remembering Billy Miller.
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