Rick Ellis
@toomuchtv.substack.com
Lifelong journalist now at AllYourScreens.com and toomuchtv.substack.com. TCA Member. Appeared on "Dark Side Of Kids TV" doc, winner of the 2024 David Robb Award for Best Investigative Civil Justice Story and a Regional Murrow Award
FWIW, the NBC reboot of "Bionic Woman" is now on The Roku Channel
January 1, 2026 at 8:47 PM
FWIW, the NBC reboot of "Bionic Woman" is now on The Roku Channel
@hellocullen.bsky.social I'm glad I caught the intro before you deleted it.
I am really looking forward to seeing this (and writing about it). Which, given Netflix's approach to PR, will mean likely mean writing about it after it premieres.
I am really looking forward to seeing this (and writing about it). Which, given Netflix's approach to PR, will mean likely mean writing about it after it premieres.
January 1, 2026 at 8:30 PM
@hellocullen.bsky.social I'm glad I caught the intro before you deleted it.
I am really looking forward to seeing this (and writing about it). Which, given Netflix's approach to PR, will mean likely mean writing about it after it premieres.
I am really looking forward to seeing this (and writing about it). Which, given Netflix's approach to PR, will mean likely mean writing about it after it premieres.
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This guy 👇. Amazing speech. Trumpers may regard him as an even bigger threat than Zohran himself.
January 1, 2026 at 7:41 PM
This guy 👇. Amazing speech. Trumpers may regard him as an even bigger threat than Zohran himself.
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This would be so popular at the national level if centrist Democrats let us use those words in that order
Mamdani: "The cost of childcare will no longer discourage young adults from starting a family, because we will deliver universal childcare for the many by taxing the wealthiest few"
January 1, 2026 at 8:04 PM
This would be so popular at the national level if centrist Democrats let us use those words in that order
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Imma stop after this …. but it’s just odd for the only indication, two days later, in the biggest print newspaper in the state, that the federal government saying it has “frozen all child care payments to the state of Minnesota” is a mention, five grafs in, in an article reprinted from The NY Times.
January 1, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Imma stop after this …. but it’s just odd for the only indication, two days later, in the biggest print newspaper in the state, that the federal government saying it has “frozen all child care payments to the state of Minnesota” is a mention, five grafs in, in an article reprinted from The NY Times.
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so old i remember an entire summer where obama had to distance himself from jeremiah wright. i dont think the msm has ever once asked trump or vance about yarvin.
Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.”
Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
January 1, 2026 at 3:24 PM
so old i remember an entire summer where obama had to distance himself from jeremiah wright. i dont think the msm has ever once asked trump or vance about yarvin.
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I took a counter-intuitive approach with my end-of-year newsletter today
toomuchtv.substack.com/p/im-not-ask...
toomuchtv.substack.com/p/im-not-ask...
I'm Not Asking For Money Today
I just want to say "thanks" and recap the year.
toomuchtv.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I took a counter-intuitive approach with my end-of-year newsletter today
toomuchtv.substack.com/p/im-not-ask...
toomuchtv.substack.com/p/im-not-ask...
According to my rough estimate, between my five-day-a-week newsletter and things I wrote for the web site, I cranked out just over a million words in 2025. Which seems like a lot? And maybe not a great idea?
December 31, 2025 at 8:59 PM
According to my rough estimate, between my five-day-a-week newsletter and things I wrote for the web site, I cranked out just over a million words in 2025. Which seems like a lot? And maybe not a great idea?
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Also you are currently nearer in time to Cleopatra than Cleopatra was to the laying-down of the first stone of the Great Pyramid of Giza, so even human time is completely unfathomable to us, let alone the vastly deeper variety.
Follow me for more science-based existential horror in 2026. 👍
Follow me for more science-based existential horror in 2026. 👍
December 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Also you are currently nearer in time to Cleopatra than Cleopatra was to the laying-down of the first stone of the Great Pyramid of Giza, so even human time is completely unfathomable to us, let alone the vastly deeper variety.
Follow me for more science-based existential horror in 2026. 👍
Follow me for more science-based existential horror in 2026. 👍
I took a counter-intuitive approach with my end-of-year newsletter today
toomuchtv.substack.com/p/im-not-ask...
toomuchtv.substack.com/p/im-not-ask...
I'm Not Asking For Money Today
I just want to say "thanks" and recap the year.
toomuchtv.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I took a counter-intuitive approach with my end-of-year newsletter today
toomuchtv.substack.com/p/im-not-ask...
toomuchtv.substack.com/p/im-not-ask...
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A fun and wide-ranging conversation—thanks, Rick!
The latest of my pieces looking back at 2025 is the great conversation with @andydehnart.com, where we dig into the year that was in reality and unscripted TV
www.allyourscreens.com/4918-andy-de...
www.allyourscreens.com/4918-andy-de...
December 31, 2025 at 3:32 AM
A fun and wide-ranging conversation—thanks, Rick!
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This website can’t take a joke, Twitter is full of Nazis, and on threads some lady said that disagreeing with her about one battle after another means I’m anti black and need to read a “revolutionary reading list”
December 31, 2025 at 12:59 AM
This website can’t take a joke, Twitter is full of Nazis, and on threads some lady said that disagreeing with her about one battle after another means I’m anti black and need to read a “revolutionary reading list”
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The latest of my pieces looking back at 2025 is the great conversation with @andydehnart.com, where we dig into the year that was in reality and unscripted TV
www.allyourscreens.com/4918-andy-de...
www.allyourscreens.com/4918-andy-de...
December 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The latest of my pieces looking back at 2025 is the great conversation with @andydehnart.com, where we dig into the year that was in reality and unscripted TV
www.allyourscreens.com/4918-andy-de...
www.allyourscreens.com/4918-andy-de...
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I am determined as God is my witness to start the Trump fake hand conspiracy theory. His hand isn't showing signs of an undisclosed illness. It's a fake painted Halloween costume hand because his hand was already removed. It's time.
December 31, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I am determined as God is my witness to start the Trump fake hand conspiracy theory. His hand isn't showing signs of an undisclosed illness. It's a fake painted Halloween costume hand because his hand was already removed. It's time.
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Oh this is a good comvo
(I hadn’t realized Nat Geo had scaled back original programming so much … I just want a channel with shows about veterinarians and animals rescue orgs)
(I hadn’t realized Nat Geo had scaled back original programming so much … I just want a channel with shows about veterinarians and animals rescue orgs)
The latest of my pieces looking back at 2025 is the great conversation with @andydehnart.com, where we dig into the year that was in reality and unscripted TV
www.allyourscreens.com/4918-andy-de...
www.allyourscreens.com/4918-andy-de...
December 30, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Oh this is a good comvo
(I hadn’t realized Nat Geo had scaled back original programming so much … I just want a channel with shows about veterinarians and animals rescue orgs)
(I hadn’t realized Nat Geo had scaled back original programming so much … I just want a channel with shows about veterinarians and animals rescue orgs)
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Fallout casting director (into megaphone): We're seeking about 3 dozen extras that look like their families have been locked underground for 200 years with little to no effort to prevent inbreeding. *points directly at a guy* You're in. (He starts crying.)
December 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Fallout casting director (into megaphone): We're seeking about 3 dozen extras that look like their families have been locked underground for 200 years with little to no effort to prevent inbreeding. *points directly at a guy* You're in. (He starts crying.)
The drunkest I ever got was when I was living in Chicago. My girlfriend insisted on helping me trim the Xmas tree, then told me she was marrying someone else. I started drinking & when I came to the next morning, the tree & all of the trimmings had been thrown out onto the lawn from the 3rd floor
Headed into New Year’s Eve, compelled to report the drunkest I ever got was waiting tables at the old Anchorage on 280/35W in NE Mpls. We were in costume, but around 11:45 decided to strip to my undies, wrap a tablecloth around my midsection & run around dining room as Baby New Year. Crowd went wild
December 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The drunkest I ever got was when I was living in Chicago. My girlfriend insisted on helping me trim the Xmas tree, then told me she was marrying someone else. I started drinking & when I came to the next morning, the tree & all of the trimmings had been thrown out onto the lawn from the 3rd floor
The latest of my pieces looking back at 2025 is the great conversation with @andydehnart.com, where we dig into the year that was in reality and unscripted TV
www.allyourscreens.com/4918-andy-de...
www.allyourscreens.com/4918-andy-de...
December 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The latest of my pieces looking back at 2025 is the great conversation with @andydehnart.com, where we dig into the year that was in reality and unscripted TV
www.allyourscreens.com/4918-andy-de...
www.allyourscreens.com/4918-andy-de...
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(1981) The song was originally written and released I 1964 by the Minneapolis-based garage band The Novas. They dedicated the song to professional wrestler Reginald Lisowski better known as "The Crusher". I used to watch as a kid - right before Roller Derby. #MusicSky youtu.be/X-_4mu1Oo74?...
The Crusher
YouTube video by The Cramps - Topic
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December 30, 2025 at 5:38 AM
(1981) The song was originally written and released I 1964 by the Minneapolis-based garage band The Novas. They dedicated the song to professional wrestler Reginald Lisowski better known as "The Crusher". I used to watch as a kid - right before Roller Derby. #MusicSky youtu.be/X-_4mu1Oo74?...
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I feel a little bad whenever I see an AI "artist" talking about having their AI prompts stolen, because the rocket full of people I'm going to shoot into the sun is already packed WAY over cargo capacity.
December 30, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I feel a little bad whenever I see an AI "artist" talking about having their AI prompts stolen, because the rocket full of people I'm going to shoot into the sun is already packed WAY over cargo capacity.
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“Gavin Newsom is a fighter” YOU LIVE IN ALBERTA
December 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
“Gavin Newsom is a fighter” YOU LIVE IN ALBERTA
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Stranger Things is officially a Minnesota TV series.
December 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Stranger Things is officially a Minnesota TV series.
Honestly, this is kinda genius
December 29, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Honestly, this is kinda genius
In a throwback to old school Twitter, this is my dinner tonight. Homemade chicken meatballs and a spicy teriyaki sauce with rice
December 29, 2025 at 12:11 AM
In a throwback to old school Twitter, this is my dinner tonight. Homemade chicken meatballs and a spicy teriyaki sauce with rice