With Richards, I think the issue was probably that his problems didn’t surface until Sony was gonna be out a significant degree of money if they cut him loose ... so they tried to make it work. (And are still trying to make it work as EP, because he’s lawyered up.) The same wasn’t true of Ken, so there was no…

It had to be either BJ or Paul Lieberstein, right? And of those two, BJ’s character is the only one it really makes sense for it to come from.

Jeopardy only tapes a couple days a month, which could obviously be rearranged around Rodgers’ schedule if they really wanted him. No reason to tape during the NFL season at all. He seemed to be genuinely interested in making it work. But the producers seem to be sticking fairly closely to their demand that the host’s…

After his hosting slot, there were a lot of articles on trade/gossip sites that he’d done a surprisingly good job and that Sony was now considering him ... but those articles were pretty clearly planted by his team to generate buzz. And it worked!

Agreed--I would have been fine with most of the guest hosts. There were some rough spots, but nothing that wouldn’t have been fixed with a few months’ practices. Ironically, one of the only ones I didn’t like was Richards, because his entire vibe felt off for the show, and that’s not fixable. Fine for GSN, probably…

LeVar didn’t do great, but it’s clear the decision was made well in advance of him hosting. Ken Jennings made a joke about Mike Richards hiring himself on a podcast that taped a couple months ago, so they’ve known at least that long.

He was also named in a gender discrimination suit from a pregnant Price Is Right model, and he was not dismissed from that.

After the last year, you’ll also guarantee that a substantial part of the viewership will hate you simply for not being Aaron Rodgers or LeVar Burton or Ken Jennings.

It is clear from the text of the Court’s ruling that anything that doesn’t go through Congress will get struck down, and probably quickly:

The Supreme Court ruled last month that the Biden admin couldn’t extend it anymore; it needed to go through Congress. Like most bills, it would take 60 votes to get it through Congress, which it doesn’t have, because ... Republicans. It’s not as simple as “the Dems can fix this but aren’t doing it.”

The problem for Scarlett is that simultaneous streaming has shown to have very little to no effect on box office. The real problem here is that box office returns are way, way down this summer across the board, whether something has been released to streaming simultaneously or not. If she’s going to win the lawsuit,…

Also, RDJ’s deals on the later MCU movies seem like they were structured pretty similarly to the ones these articles describe for Scarlett—a flat fee of $10-20M, then percentages of box office returns that kick in at specific bonus levels—e.g., you get a certain cut at $500M, a greater cut at $1B, etc. The difference…

There’s no indication that simultaneous streaming is cutting into box office sales to the degree that she’s claiming, though. Box office sales this summer are down about 50% across the board, for movies that are released simultaneously through streaming or not. You can see this in movies like F9 or The Forever Purge,…

Yeah, the $50 million claim is obvious bullshit, and it makes me wonder what other parts of this story her team being misleading about. On average, box office revenue is down about 50% across the board this year, regardless of whether a movie is simultaneously released on streaming or not. $70 million in total…

She already has withdrawn from the individual all-around competition coming up.

I’m by no means an expert on all the athletes you mentioned, but MJ and Tiger had very public mental health struggles at their peaks. Jordan quit to go play baseball. Tiger, after being derailed by mental health and personal issues, didn’t win a major competition for over five years and has never returned to his peak.…

Also, she tore ligaments in her ankle on the first vault, which would have kept her out of the AA and EF either way. Bela was super shitty to make her do the second vault, but it wasn’t what kept her out of the other events.

No, because—as the lawsuit points out—the Post allowed male employees who’d been accused of sexual harassment to both continue working there and continue reporting on it. That apparently wasn’t considered “bias.”

I mean, the goal of HR is absolutely to protect the company, but in this case, it sounds like they weren’t doing that. A lot of the stuff mentioned in this article is clear lawsuit territory, and HR doing nothing about it is an enormous legal risk for the company. The fact that they’re getting sued is proof that HR…

In Britney’s case, there are regular court reviews—at least a few times a year. The judge has always decided to continue the conservatorship afterward.