Thanks to all the data sucked up by your viewing habits, we have identified you as the viewer with the most incomplete record of watching, with a shameful 1,267 unfinished series to your name. We represent the hard-working people from the shows on Hulu, Netflix, Peacock, Amazon, HBOMax, the pluses (Apple TV, Paramount, Disney) and Acorn. We added up the budgets of programming you wantonly abandoned and it is over $4 billion wasted. Over 17 million work hours were spent by writers who busted their asses to weave cliffhangers leading to the next episode and complete storylines of fringe characters who may have been…
Author: Lee Sachs
William Goldman, legendary screenwriter of such movies as The Princess Bride, All the President’s Men and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was just one of the great figures we lost in 2018. Goldman was a wily observer of the movie business, well known for coining the expression “Nobody knows anything” in his book Adventures in the Screen Trade. Recently, archivists uncovered these other aphorisms in his notebooks: Everybody knows something. Nobody knows nobody because nobody knows themselves of course. (“Know thyself” even if you’re nobody.) Not everybody knows I coined the expression “Nobody knows anything.” Almost everybody knows at…