Chris Freeman
@totbh10.bsky.social
Father, editor, Oak Island Curser, ATX TV Fest member, general pain in the ass.
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Discussed my Top 10 list, Bowen Yang's "SNL" departure and more in my biweekly podcast visit with @nickdigilio.bsky.social:
Nick D - Dan Fienberg, The Best Television of 2025 & Slap Slapply Returns!
Dan Fienberg ranks the best TV of 2025 before trivia chaos erupts.
radiomisfits.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Discussed my Top 10 list, Bowen Yang's "SNL" departure and more in my biweekly podcast visit with @nickdigilio.bsky.social:
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RDJ, Evans, and others returning is symptomatic of Marvel's struggles to make the post-Endgame characters stick. But it hasn't helped that so many of them have had only one appearance. I know some of this is due to Covid and the strikes, but it's bizarre there wasn't a Shang-Chi sequel, for instance
December 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
RDJ, Evans, and others returning is symptomatic of Marvel's struggles to make the post-Endgame characters stick. But it hasn't helped that so many of them have had only one appearance. I know some of this is due to Covid and the strikes, but it's bizarre there wasn't a Shang-Chi sequel, for instance
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so heated rivalry takes place in a bizarro alternate universe where a banana is considered a wild and novel addition to a smoothie and not THE most quintessential basic smoothie ingredient
December 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
so heated rivalry takes place in a bizarro alternate universe where a banana is considered a wild and novel addition to a smoothie and not THE most quintessential basic smoothie ingredient
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I, for one, do not welcome our robot overlords.
December 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I, for one, do not welcome our robot overlords.
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I’m just glad Quibi didn’t live to see this.
Breaking: The Oscars Are Leaving ABC For YouTube Starting in 2029
Oscars Bolt from ABC to YouTube Starting in 2029
The Academy announced on Wednesday:
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I’m just glad Quibi didn’t live to see this.
If this is only available on YouTube TV in the US, as it looks like reporting says, then the Oscars left broadcast for a niche cable service. Not for streaming, cause you won’t be able to watch it on YouTube in the US.
Really? Make it make sense.
Really? Make it make sense.
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and YouTube signed a multi-year deal that will give YouTube the exclusive global rights to the Oscars®, beginning in 2029 with the 101st Oscars ceremony and running through 2033.
The Academy took the biggest check.
The Academy took the biggest check.
December 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
If this is only available on YouTube TV in the US, as it looks like reporting says, then the Oscars left broadcast for a niche cable service. Not for streaming, cause you won’t be able to watch it on YouTube in the US.
Really? Make it make sense.
Really? Make it make sense.
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2 decades before Philip J. Fry there was Capt. William “Buck” Rogers paving the way for those who were accidentally frozen for centuries.
Rest easy Captain
Rest Easy
Rest easy Captain
Rest Easy
December 17, 2025 at 4:04 AM
2 decades before Philip J. Fry there was Capt. William “Buck” Rogers paving the way for those who were accidentally frozen for centuries.
Rest easy Captain
Rest Easy
Rest easy Captain
Rest Easy
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Now it looks like we lost Gil Gerard.
He was 82.
He was 82.
December 17, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Now it looks like we lost Gil Gerard.
He was 82.
He was 82.
We watched the PBS special on Dick Van Dyke tonight. I got to tell stories about Rob’s dad helming the original Dick Van Dyke show. Rob lived a good and full life. But man it felt like he had more in him. L
Hate the news for too many reasons to count.
Hate the news for too many reasons to count.
December 15, 2025 at 5:29 AM
We watched the PBS special on Dick Van Dyke tonight. I got to tell stories about Rob’s dad helming the original Dick Van Dyke show. Rob lived a good and full life. But man it felt like he had more in him. L
Hate the news for too many reasons to count.
Hate the news for too many reasons to count.
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I badly want to rewrite that first sentence. "If you ignore 'North,' 'The American President" was next."
Anyway... You're looking at all-timers in like...seven genres or subgenres. He didn't get credit as a great director — zero Oscar nods for directing — because he lacked a "style," but... Man.
Anyway... You're looking at all-timers in like...seven genres or subgenres. He didn't get credit as a great director — zero Oscar nods for directing — because he lacked a "style," but... Man.
Ignore "North" and "American President" as next. That's 8-out-of-9 at the HIGHEST level. To be maybe our greatest rom-com director and throw in a Top 10 coming-of-age movie, an impeccable claustrophobic thriller, perfectly handled Sorkin, THE seminal mockumentary...
All ENDLESSLY rewatchable.
All ENDLESSLY rewatchable.
This has to be one of the greatest runs any director has ever experienced.
December 15, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I badly want to rewrite that first sentence. "If you ignore 'North,' 'The American President" was next."
Anyway... You're looking at all-timers in like...seven genres or subgenres. He didn't get credit as a great director — zero Oscar nods for directing — because he lacked a "style," but... Man.
Anyway... You're looking at all-timers in like...seven genres or subgenres. He didn't get credit as a great director — zero Oscar nods for directing — because he lacked a "style," but... Man.
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Wrote about how the late, great Rob Reiner had the most impossible 7-movie beginning to any director's career, and yet that's not even what he was most famous for:
December 15, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Wrote about how the late, great Rob Reiner had the most impossible 7-movie beginning to any director's career, and yet that's not even what he was most famous for:
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AI’ is becoming shorthand for ’We don’t care if it works, we just don’t want to pay people to do it properly.’
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Amazon pulls AI recap from Fallout TV show after it made several mistakes
The errors included getting dialogue wrong and incorrectly claiming a scene was set 100 years earlier than it was.
www.bbc.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
AI’ is becoming shorthand for ’We don’t care if it works, we just don’t want to pay people to do it properly.’
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Say what you will about the degree of sanity exhibited by Philip Rivers' return to football, but I'm planning my Sunday around an afternoon tilt between the Colts and Seahawks, which would NOT have been the case if Daniel Jones had remained healthy.
December 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Say what you will about the degree of sanity exhibited by Philip Rivers' return to football, but I'm planning my Sunday around an afternoon tilt between the Colts and Seahawks, which would NOT have been the case if Daniel Jones had remained healthy.
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The list is locked. I still don't love it. But it's mine. Some predictable stuff. Some surprises. Drops tomorrow at THR!
I have a version of a Top 10 list. I'm still at the point at which I hate my version of my Top 10 list (even if I love the shows on it). Time to convince myself I like my Top 10 list.
December 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The list is locked. I still don't love it. But it's mine. Some predictable stuff. Some surprises. Drops tomorrow at THR!
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The FNL reunion is super exciting but this got buried in the excitement!
December 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The FNL reunion is super exciting but this got buried in the excitement!
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ATX TV Festival Unveils First Season 15 Programming, Including #Homicide: Life On The Street Retrospective and #SweetVicious 10-Year Reunion - Deadline #ATXTVs15
ATX TV Festival Unveils First Season 15 Programming, Including ‘Homicide: Life On The Street’ Retrospective & ‘Sweet/Vicious’ 10-Year Reunion
ATX TV Festival Season 15 will include a Homicide: Life on the Street retrospective and a Sweet/Vicious cast reunion
deadline.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
ATX TV Festival Unveils First Season 15 Programming, Including #Homicide: Life On The Street Retrospective and #SweetVicious 10-Year Reunion - Deadline #ATXTVs15
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#FridayNightLights Cast Sets 20th Anniversary Reunion at ATX TV Festival - Variety #ATXTVs15
‘Friday Night Lights’ Cast Sets 20th Anniversary Reunion at ATX TV Festival
The cast of "Friday Night Lights" will celebrate 20 years since the pilot at the 2026 ATX TV Festival.
variety.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
#FridayNightLights Cast Sets 20th Anniversary Reunion at ATX TV Festival - Variety #ATXTVs15
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All I see is Colin Robinson🧛♂️
Top Trump econ advisor admits "there is a little bit of slowing related to the fact that younger folks are being hired at a slower rate"
December 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
All I see is Colin Robinson🧛♂️
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5 years ago today, Taylor Swift announced "Evermore" album.
But what has she been up to since?
But what has she been up to since?
December 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
5 years ago today, Taylor Swift announced "Evermore" album.
But what has she been up to since?
But what has she been up to since?
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“It’s a very disruptive move but it will also disrupt them": My latest on a potential WB-Netflix deal for @theankler.com theankler.com/p/12-c-suite...
12 C-Suite Execs on the ‘Existential’ Fallout of a Warners Deal and the ‘Least Bad’ Outcome
Private whispers about why the acquisition could be as destabilizing for the buyer as it is for the rest of Hollywood
theankler.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
“It’s a very disruptive move but it will also disrupt them": My latest on a potential WB-Netflix deal for @theankler.com theankler.com/p/12-c-suite...
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Colbert on Paramount's $108 billion hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros: "Wow... If my company's got that kind of green, I'm sure they can afford to un-cancel one of their best shows..."
December 10, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Colbert on Paramount's $108 billion hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros: "Wow... If my company's got that kind of green, I'm sure they can afford to un-cancel one of their best shows..."
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ANDOR was my favorite show of the year and frankly FRANKLY it’s not particularly close.
December 10, 2025 at 6:52 AM
ANDOR was my favorite show of the year and frankly FRANKLY it’s not particularly close.