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โ€˜Murdoch Mysteriesโ€™ Maker Shaftesbury Puts Jay Bennett In Charge Of Franchises

4 June 2026 at 11:30
EXCLUSIVE: Canadaโ€™s Shaftesbury is doubling down on the franchise game. The Murdoch Mysteries maker has named Jay Bennett as its Senior Vice President, Franchise Strategy & Innovation โ€“ a role that puts the veteran producer and media strategist in charge of expanding its IP acvross platforms, audiences, brand partnerships and emerging media ecosystems. Bennett made [โ€ฆ]

  • โœ‡The Daily Cartoonist
  • CSotD: The Golden Spiderโ€™s Touch Mike Peterson
    I like Chiltonโ€™s art (which comes from the New Cartoonist), but both the subject matter and the setting are a reminder that the Whole World Is Watching, and it isnโ€™t cheering us on. There are worse things to export than Disney films, but this is still an indication of how much our culture, such as [โ€ฆ]
     

CSotD: The Golden Spiderโ€™s Touch

31 May 2026 at 13:00
I like Chiltonโ€™s art (which comes from the New Cartoonist), but both the subject matter and the setting are a reminder that the Whole World Is Watching, and it isnโ€™t cheering us on. There are worse things to export than Disney films, but this is still an indication of how much our culture, such as [โ€ฆ]

  • โœ‡The Daily Cartoonist
  • CSotD: Mothers and other relationships Mike Peterson
    I got a particular laugh out of this RWO, because I worked at a paper where they had mugshots of the staff on a bulletin board in the break room. It was handy, because you could learn the names of people in other departments who you ran into in only a superficial way.But it became [โ€ฆ]
     

CSotD: Mothers and other relationships

10 May 2026 at 11:45
I got a particular laugh out of this RWO, because I worked at a paper where they had mugshots of the staff on a bulletin board in the break room. It was handy, because you could learn the names of people in other departments who you ran into in only a superficial way.But it became [โ€ฆ]

  • โœ‡The Daily Cartoonist
  • CSotD: Civilization and Its Malcontents Mike Peterson
    Fell cuts through the analysis and legal deconstruction and reminds us that racism is real, which, at heart, is all you really have to know. Some racism is intentional and conspiratorial, like redistricting to keep Black candidates out of office or requiring bogus literacy tests to keep Black citizens from qualifying to vote. But it [โ€ฆ]
     

CSotD: Civilization and Its Malcontents

5 May 2026 at 11:52
Fell cuts through the analysis and legal deconstruction and reminds us that racism is real, which, at heart, is all you really have to know. Some racism is intentional and conspiratorial, like redistricting to keep Black candidates out of office or requiring bogus literacy tests to keep Black citizens from qualifying to vote. But it [โ€ฆ]

  • โœ‡The Daily Cartoonist
  • A Sunday Funny Supplemental (Banned in Boston?) D. D. Degg
    Mrs. Olsen is a lot more understanding than a lot of commenters on GoComics and Comics Kingdom who seem to be in a constant state of aggravation over a lot of comic strip characters. Some more than others: Comic strips are visual first script second and when Mallard Fillmore came up my first reaction was [โ€ฆ]
     

A Sunday Funny Supplemental (Banned in Boston?)

11 May 2026 at 00:21
Mrs. Olsen is a lot more understanding than a lot of commenters on GoComics and Comics Kingdom who seem to be in a constant state of aggravation over a lot of comic strip characters. Some more than others: Comic strips are visual first script second and when Mallard Fillmore came up my first reaction was [โ€ฆ]

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  • The Best Mystery Series of All Time Is Surging on Streaming 30 Years After It Ended Shawn Van Horn
    In the 1980s, male protagonists dominated TV detective mysteries. Tom Selleck was the epitome of cool on Magnum, P.I., as were Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas on Miami Vice, while Simon & Simon paired Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker together as private investigator brothers. One small-screen detective, however, was not like the others. In 1984, Murder, She Wrote debuted on CBS, starring the near-60-year-old Angela Lansbury in the lead role of Jessica Fletcher. Today, 30 years after i
     

The Best Mystery Series of All Time Is Surging on Streaming 30 Years After It Ended

6 June 2026 at 23:52

In the 1980s, male protagonists dominated TV detective mysteries. Tom Selleck was the epitome of cool on Magnum, P.I., as were Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas on Miami Vice, while Simon & Simon paired Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker together as private investigator brothers. One small-screen detective, however, was not like the others. In 1984, Murder, She Wrote debuted on CBS, starring the near-60-year-old Angela Lansbury in the lead role of Jessica Fletcher. Today, 30 years after its last episode aired in 1996, Murder, She Wrote is still a big streaming hit, now topping the charts on the Apple TV store.

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