Each weekend, Next TV writers Daniel Frankel and David Bloom jot down their thoughts and impulses in this column. Here's their latest:
DANIEL FRANKEL: Well David, happy Father's Day weekend. We've come to the end of a somewhat slow early summer week in TMT. But there was some action: Shari Redstone pulled the plug on David Ellison, NBCUniversal (somewhat out of nowhere) decided to order an ambitious new scripted series for one of its linear cable networks, and Jerry West (the true "GOAT" of the $76 billion NBA) passed on at 86, and Charles Barkley announced his retirement, effective upon when TNT's Inside the NBA likely ends its run next year. Oh, and Netflix wrote a big check to Shawn Ryan, and it also deftfly moved in on competitive eating after the Nathan’s hot dog people dumbly decided to disqualify Joey Chestnut. As brilliant Pavement lyricist Steve Malkmus once wrote and sang, "So many fortresses and ways to attack."
