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Back on the very first day of 2025, I made a post about what I wanted to see happen in the new year . I really didn't expect much, but I was a bit optimistic about the media landscape. I didn't expect much optimism elsewhere because, um, well, you know. You've seen America since January 20, 2025. You know. Regardless, on this final day of 2025, I figure how the things I wanted to see in the new year would pan out. The result? Maybe I should have just wished that the sun would come out. At least I had that the biggest of the year. So, here's how my hopes were dashed this past year: FAST channels with more A-list/top-tier programming.  Surprisingly, this actually happened. Homicide: Life on the Street , a series that hadn't been on the air in decades, made its streaming debut this year on Universal Crime. The original Law & Order also got its own self-contained FAST channel. PBS and BBC expanded their FAST offerings with themed channels. Moonlighting found a sp...

As odd as it may be to say this sentence out loud, I've been on YouTube for about 20 years now. It'll be exactly 20 years in March, so it's pretty safe to say I've been around since the birth of the platform and seen it change from a place to put random clips to a place that was the world's public access channel to the biggest streaming platform in the world. (I get the feeling you're going to see people try to claim Netflix is the biggest streamer in the coming months for regulatory reasons and a major media deal, but that's untrue, and I'm not going to talk about that today)  I never really put much on the platform aside from a few clips because I'm really not much of a video entertainer. I tend to write. I think I'm pretty good at that. That said, I've been entertained throughout the decades on YouTube, and there were four brothers I've always followed there: Daym Drops for food stuff, Dashie for games, Andre "BlackNerdComedy...

It's mid-December when I decided to finally complete this piece I've been holding back on since the spring.  On the day that I started writing this piece, it was March 17, 2025. Twenty-eight years ago on that date... dang near 29 years now, Toonami premiered on Cartoon Network on that date in 1997.  I'm sure there are folks who read these words who weren't even born in 1997, so they really don't understand the impact that day may have had on my generation, particularly the second-half Gen Xers who saw action shows they grew up watching becoming the foundation of the block that once called itself "the better cartoon show."  Not just the anime, mind you, we had many of those a few years earlier, albeit in very early timeslots.  Toonami was once an oasis every weekday afternoon. Then, Cartoon Network felt too many older folks were watching it, so they replaced it was a more kid-friendly variant and moved the block to Saturday nights.  Then, Cartoon Network ...

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...

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 ...