Weekly Journal #154
Industry News
Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl To Be Simulcast On Discovery Channel, TBS, HBO Max & Discovery+ In WBD Synergy Move (Deadline)
Why This Top Hollywood Agent Thinks Streaming Deals Fall Short and a Strike May Be Looming (The Los Angeles Times)
Hollywood’s Unions & Producers Agree To Extend Covid Safety Protocols Through April 1 (Deadline)
Film
Sundance, Once a Hotbed for Film Deals, Tries to Find Its Footing (The New York Times)
Oscar Nominations 2023: ‘Everything Everywhere’ Leads With 11 Nods, Followed by ‘Banshees’ and ‘All Quiet’ (Variety)
Sundance Winners: ‘A Thousand and One’ Takes U.S. Dramatic Jury Prize (Complete List) (Variety)
The Film Academy And Its Oscars Manage To Feed On Their Own Mistakes (Deadline)
Oscars Continues to Take Heat for Lack of Diversity Among Nominees (Parade)
Television
With ‘MILF Manor’ And ‘Power Slap,’ David Zaslav’s Basic Cable Networks Are Scraping The Bottom Of The Programming Barrel (Decider)
‘Stranger Things’ Rules 2022 Streaming Charts, Nielsen Says; Netflix’s ‘Wednesday’ & ‘Ozark’ Big Winners Too (Deadline)
Broadcast TV Scorecard 2023: What’s New, Renewed and Canceled (So Far) (The Hollywood Reporter)
How Rian Johnson Plans to Subvert TV’s Binge Model With ‘Poker Face’ (The Hollywood Reporter)
In Other News
If You Want to Live Here, You’ll Have to Audition (The New York Times)