It recently came to my attention that Ben Silverman was asked to give a keynote address at this year’s MIPTV Conference in Cannes, France on April 13, 2010. Realizing that Ben is a very busy man (what with single-handedly changing the media landscape… again), I…
All I can say is, BEN SILVERMAN HAS DONE IT AGAIN! In only nine months, Mr. Silverman has taken his crazy $100 million dollar dream of Electus.com and turned it into the reality that IS Electus.com. The brilliance of the Electus.com homepage (at left) is…
From where I sit at my breakfast nook in La Canada, California, 3,000 miles from IAC’s headquarters in New York, Barry Diller seems to be getting tired of it all. Yesterday, when I listened to IAC’s earnings call, I got the sense that Mr. Diller…
Ben Silverman is making this way too easy. IAC has released the logo for Ben Silverman’s world-changing, earth-shattering, ground-breaking new venture – Electus. In my opinion, it is the perfect logo for the company. Everything you need to know about Electus and its future success…
YES! But only Viacom’s cable networks and digital assets. CBS (not wanting to leave the cocoon of Old Media) should buy Viacom’s Paramount Pictures. Is there any chance in hell this could actually happen? Could Rupert Murdoch pull off an acquisition of that magnitude? No…
Apparently, Rich Ross has had an epiphany: Women like movies. According to the Los Angeles Times (and I’m paraphrasing/ reading between-the-lines), Rich Ross has told (male) literary agents at (male) literary agencies (who represent [male] literary writers), that (Walt) Disney Studios would like to produce…
I received an email this morning from a friend who said: “Jill, OMG, you have to click on this link and vote for my show!” “Vote for what?”, I said. “The Best Of 2009 TV.com Awards! My show was nominated!” Are you fucking kidding me? …