Who are the very worst TV showrunners ever

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Originally Posted by TMC

It almost get a kick out of going through the old TWoP forums on Entertainment Tonight from the 2000s. It basically serves a perfect window into how that show became a complete shell of itself under Linda Bell Blue's watch. Pat O'Brien's memoir also has some nice little insight of what it was like working under LBB.



The bottom-line is that before Linda Bell Blue came along in 1995, Entertainment Tonight was an informative entertainment show about the latest movies, television, and music. But then, they switched the format to a more tabloid/gossip-styled show.

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Tara Reid: The Linda Bell Blue Effect (sneak peek docu-mini)

A taste of what is to come. Content advisory: substance use, self harm, bonus "vocal fry" (see below)

When I posted the next video is "coming soon," two weeks of upper respiratory infection had progressed to laryngitis. Since I never wrote an intro, I had time to finish that much while I tried to recover. But after a week and a half, impatience won out and, ready or not, I pushed myself to croak out a voiceover. At some points it is more obvious than others. But, as former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld once put it, "you go to war with the army you have, not the army you want."

This segment is the third out of six that will make up the main video. I am currently midway through finishing segment four, and each of these productions is a learning experience for me. This time around, I discovered a new migraine trigger: Carson Daly. We're jumping in at about the 40 minute mark, following Tara's big break in _American Pie_. It is by far the longest side tangent but by the end you will have a sense of how it ties back to Tara's story.

• Star Whackers #1: The Linda Bell Blue Effect

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Originally Posted by Yong Fang

A guy named Kurtzman is basically the “show runner” for the new Trek series Discovery and Picard, which in my opinion and the opinion of the majority of Star Trek faithful are not good shows with terrible storylines and mostly terrible characters. Trek nation isn’t feeling the love but watch the dreck out of loyalty to the franchise and the hope that something better comes (and if we don’t watch it, Trek dies).

After a decade of going all in on activism, all of Hollywood’s biggest brands are but shadows of their former selves. As we’ve seen with Marvel, Avengers Doomsday is no longer about making money, that’s why they don’t mind it opening directly opposite Dune 3; because now, it’s a loss leader whose only job is to win back the hearts and minds of the fans they drove away.

Star Wars is in much worse shape and has no such loss leader in the works that we know of, and The Mandalorian and Grogu is tracking so poorly that the studio is now putting out news suggesting that Gina Carano might be in the movie. If that in turn would suggest any kind of new direction, is too early to say.

Then, somewhere between Marvel’s decisive corrective action and the apparent inaction over at Lucasfilm, there is Star Trek – where some corrective action obviously is taking place, but as far as anyone on the outside can ascertain, not even Paramount appears to know what to do next?

Or do they? Are they perhaps further along behind the scenes than they have let on to the rest of the world? According to our sources, as we are about to see here, the answer to that, is a resounding YES – and our sources have shared some more details with us, which we are about to relay to you …