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Fear After The Rose Ceremony

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On December 4, 2025, Netflix announced plans that they would acquire the streaming and studios division of Warner Bros Discovery in a deal that is worth nearly US$80 billion. The rose ceremony that had the business world had been waiting for had been telecast for the world to see, and everybody involved decided that this courting game was finally over. Of course, if you believe that, I have a skyscraper to sell you. I would have said bridge, but I'm not selling that quite yet.  Plus, I'm still giving it repairs. Hopefully those repairs will be completed by the summer, so wish me luck. But yeah, apparently this courting game is not over just yet because the company that had felt it deserved that final rose despite being rebuffed many, many, many times is going all out and trying to tell not only Warner Bros Discovery but also the entire world that they're going to get them or nobody will.  Ever. I mentioned how the mountain wrecker known as David Ellison has had a kind of o...
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The Final Rose Ceremony

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At the time I began writing this (December 4, 2025), the so-called great bidding war for Warner Bros Discovery is probably likely coming to an end. In the middle of writing this piece, right around midnight on December 5, apparently there is a definitive winner. I'll talk about what happened and how it happened here. It's all a reality show at this point. Something akin to The Bachelor, a popular dating competition series that the folks at WBD is very familiar with considering they produce and owns the global franchise. .  In this case, it's The Golden Bachelor.  An older, rather seasoned media company that hasn't had the best luck when it comes to relationships in the past is putting themselves out there hoping to find companionship, kinship, and a new beginning of sorts.  Are they looking for romance? Nah. Just survival at this point in a world where everything is changing, not only creatively and fiscally, but also politically and tech-wise. And after an incredible ...
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A Year After The Distortion

This may get a little wordy, so bear with me for a while.  A little over a year ago this month, we officially entered the Glitch. This isn't a corner of The Twilight Zone , a sector in The Outer Limits , or a reflection within the Black Mirror , but rather some odd series of events that showed the world that the United States of America is not only imperfect but critically flawed, unapologetically hateful, unbalanced, and tenuously fragile.  The United States showed the world that it doesn't matter if you're educated, empathetic, rational, and truly overqualified, ESPECIALLY if you're a person of color or a woman. Or, heaven forbid, a Black woman (a sidenote: Michelle Obama was right, and the fact that so many people are trying to distort what she said just proves her comments were true and valid). The United States showed the world that its citizens are pretty okay with authoritarian fascism under the rule of a revenge-seeking felonious despot surrounded by racist, sex...
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The Mountain Wrecker

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 I have seen a madman completely destroy a major American institution to build a bloated, gaudy monument to themselves thanks to billionaire friends largely flipping the bill.  But this article is not about what the current Administration has literally done to the White House.  This is about how David Ellison destroyed Paramount to create a media empire that conservatives have only dreamed about thanks to his billionaire daddy largely flipping the bill, radically changing CBS News into a conservative-leaning propaganda group and canceling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.  Even after that, he wants to buy a second, much larger media company, Warner Bros Discovery, to solidify himself as the Big Media Thanos that rules Hollywood and the complete backing of the Administration. Let me be abundantly clear.  I don’t want ANYBODY to buy Warner Bros Discovery. At all.  I don’t want Comcast to buy them. I don’t want to see a tech company like Netflix, Amazon, or ...
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Project MTV: The Complete Guide

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In mid-September 2025, I had convinced myself to write out a plan that had been in my brain for a while that I never had the nerve to get out of my head.  I created an entire plan to reinvent, reimagine, and reestablish the MTV brand for the future.   To repeat what I said throughout the entirety of this project, I am not, nor will I ever expect to be associated with and employed by MTV and its parent company, Paramount Skydance. This is part of #projectmtv, a fan-made MTV rebranding project. This is not happening in any form, but it's fun to dream. And this was a fun project to create. While a lot of what I wrote can be lost in the ether, here are the chapters of #projectmtv: PROLOGUE: I Want My MTV Explaining the Science Reintroducing MTV: Music Television Presenting MTV Generation Presenting MTV Palladia Presenting Club MTV The FAST Lane The Rebirth of Liquid Television License to Survive Questions and Final Thoughts Reinventing MTV: A Visual Portfolio I even managed t...
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Project MTV: Final Questions

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  Writer's Note: I am not, nor will I ever expect to be associated with and employed by MTV and its parent company, Paramount Skydance. This is part of #projectmtv, a fan-made MTV rebranding project. This is not happening in any form, but it's fun to dream. - jh   1) “Will MTV air music videos 24 hours a day?” Absolutely not. None of the four MTV linear networks will be wall-to-wall music videos. Price concerns aside, the need to air all videos is completely unnecessary in the age of YouTube, which has unedited music at your fingertips at every given hour of the day. The main MTV network will be 50% music programming, which is, honestly 100% more music than the network currently airs today. In addition to the morning and mid-afternoon blocks, MTV will also air MTV Top 20 Video Countdown every Friday night with next day streaming on Paramount+ and a Sunday primetime rebroadcast on Club MTV. There will be music airing in a bulk of the hours of the secondary channels. ...
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Project MTV: License to Survive

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Writer's Note: I am not, nor will I ever expect to be associated with and employed by MTV and its parent company, Paramount Skydance. This is part of #projectmtv, a fan-made MTV rebranding project. This is not happening in any form, but it's fun to dream. - jh   Paramount Skydance’s music television library is already one of the most impressive in the industry. Paramount owns to collective archives of MTV, VH1, CMT, and BET, including every music series, every interview segment, and every live musical performance that has ever aired on those channels.   Shows like 120 Minutes, Week in Rock, Headbangers Ball, Video Soul, Rap City, Yo! MTV Raps, Behind the Music, MTV Unplugged, VH1 Storytellers, CMT Crossroads, BET Soulstage, 106 & Park, and Total Request Live should all be fixtures across the new MTV.  Yes, I do believe that BET’s music programming has as much a place at MTV as VH1 or CMT. The whole “separate-but-equal” mentality within Paramount is ridiculo...
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