Joe Adalian
West coast editor for New York Mag's Vulture. (Middle-aged) child of television. Allen Ludden superfan. YouTube archaeologist.
- This interview is what will be clipped and used on the Super Bowl. It's Trump trying, in his own lizard brain way, to be appear slightly reasonable for the large numbers of folks who simply don't pay attention most of the time (or don't have the time to pay attention as they work 3 jobs)
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- “All your favorites. All your friends. All this year…on ABC.” youtu.be/0CPEMPsPiXM?...
- I’ve posted a lot recently about what I consider boneheaded moves by CBS News under its new management. Here’s something good worth noting: For the second time in a week, @macfarlanenews.bsky.social tonight plainly and clearly said Trump is “lying” about the outcome of the 2020 election. Good.
- The world is on fire, Trump commits a new impeachable offense almost daily, and the so-called paper of record thinks the most important story to lead its website is a day-old story about…the Clintons. So much good work from Times reporters, and yet…
- Call it the Taylor Effect: With no T-Swift, Sunday's final GRAMMYS on CBS before the show's move to ABC next years fell to 14.4M viewers on CBS in Nielsen's live + same day with Big Data final figures. In 2024, absent Big Data, the show notched 17.1M viewers.
- Couple things: One: Collins came to CNN from The Daily Caller, a right-wing site. She's not some dyed-in-the-wool leftist. Two: If WH reporters, like those in the TCA, had the backs of their colleagues, they would simply re-ask the question Collins did until he either answered or walked away
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- A U.S. Senator just called Netflix "the woke-est content in the history of the world," which is laughable as all get out. But let's play along and assume it was true: Netflix is by far the most popular streamer in the U.S. and the world. So...Americans must really love "woke"? 🤔
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- It's Kelly-over: THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW will end the season, wrapping up a seven-year run in daytime syndication. "Stepping away from the daily schedule will allow me to prioritize my kids, which feels necessary and right for this next chapter of our lives," Clarkson said. She told staff today.
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- I remember when the Obamacare site being slow and glitchy for a couple weeks was a scandal worse than Watergate, and proof of incompetence by the the first Black president. Trump's admin out there doxxing crime victims and publishing porn (naked pics were included) and it'll be a one-day story
- “A review of 47 victims’ full names on Sunday found that 43 of them were left unredacted in files that were made public by the government on Friday, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. Several women’s full names appeared more than 100 times in the files. “ www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
- ABC's HIGH POTENTIAL continues finding new linear viewers. Tuesday's episode notched a stunning 8.9M L+3 viewers, per Nielsen-- highest of the season and, I'm guessing, a series high as well. The idea that network TV shows don't grow in S2 anymore? It's a myth.
- The diagnosis for Fox's BEST MEDICINE continues to be positive. Last Tuesday's episode notched 4.7M viewers in L+3 Nielsen ratings (live plus three days of DVR replays), a series high for the new light drama--and beating even the show's NFL-boosted Jan. 6 preview (4.5M) A season 2 order is a lock.
- Another sign of how messed up/skewed the algorithm is on Occupied Twitter: Choitner has 5x the number of followers over there than here, but this same post has roughly 4x as many reposts here vs. there. And yet so many journalists (not Choitner) still spend most/all of their time on OT...
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- I will say this: Even though I wasn’t familiar with many of the performers, this year’s Grammys was very entertaining and super well-produced, particularly the final hour. Great capper for the CBS era.
- I laughed so hard at Choitner's questions here, and imagining him asking them, I may have pulled a muscle. Deadpan doesn't even begin to describe the tone. Choitner really is the Dr. Kevorkian of interviewers.
- i don't know if i've ever seen a chotining where chotiner gives up in the middle and goes "ok buddy. here's your petard." www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...
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- Yes, give me the Gold Zone but for the Grammys.
- Benson Boone jumped so Alex Warren could…ride an elevator.
- As soon as I hit send on this, Alex Warren comes on with one of the songs from the last year that I *do* know (along with the song that opened the show).
- There should be a live “Pop-up Video” feed of the Grammys that tells you who’s performing, what their backstory is, who they’re feuding/hooking up with, etc. Turn the Grammys into a three-hour crash course in pop culture for clueless older viewers (like, um, me)***
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- I assume the Sabrina Carpenter song she did at the Grammys is/was a massive hit, and yet CBS had to drop audio four times because, I’m guessing, it has some sort of four-letter word in the lyrics? Insane that network TV, which 90 percent of people watch via steaming, has to do this in 2026
- Incredibly thirsty of the #Grammys (but not ineffective) to import single-performance mosh pit dancers for the opening. At first I actually thought the stuffed shirts who get those prime tables actually had a pulse!
- Ironically, for those of you who quite reasonably guessed “Dolly Parton,” this same duo went to the bonus round after this round and Dolly (and her cleavage) were part of the game. 1982, everyone!
- We have a winner! It was someone from the 80s, and a very popular celeb in 1982…and someone we lost just last year. It was the one and only Ms. Loni Anderson. Congrats to @rassaly.bsky.social for ringing in with the right answer.
- We have a winner! It was someone from the 80s, and a very popular celeb in 1982…and someone we lost just last year. It was the one and only Ms. Loni Anderson. Congrats to @rassaly.bsky.social for ringing in with the right answer.
