#Mark Lazarus

[redostimulate]

I don't think Leo haters would be able to handle Mark.

Mark makes him seem like child's play in comparison. 😮‍💨

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Alex Samuels at Daily Kos:

According to a report from Oliver Darcy’s Status newsletter (note that it’s behind a paywall), the left-of-center MSNBC news network is apparently toying with shaking up its business model so it can be on “better terms” with Republicans.  Darcy reported that Mark Lazarus, the newly installed leader of SpinCo, a new company comprising networks like CNBC, MSNBC, and E!, indicated that he would like the outlet to incorporate “more GOP voices on its air.” Darcy cited people familiar with Lazarus’ thinking but said that no formal directive or editorial guidance has been given to MSNBC anchors or producers. 

“To be clear, Lazarus has signaled that he wants the channel to retain its core progressive identity," Darcy reported. Lazarus has also stated he intends to keep top talent, including Rachel Maddow. But there’s evidence that some of the network’s other well-known anchors want a better working relationship with Trump. In mid-November, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, cohosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” were widely criticized after they visited Mar-a-Lago to visit the president-elect. Perhaps Lazarus’ thinking is merely business-driven. After all, according to data from Nielsen, which was cited in reporting by the Wall Street Journal, MSNBC averaged 603,000 prime-time viewers from Nov. 6 to Dec. 8—down by more than half from the network’s year-to-date average. CNN’s ratings tumbled after Election Day, too, while Fox News was up by 12%. There’s also the looming threat of mega-billionaire Elon Musk. In November, the Tesla CEO teased that he could buy MSNBC. “How much does it cost?” he asked in a post to his social media network X.

His question was in response to a re-post by Donald Trump Jr. that falsely stated Comcast is putting MSNBC up for sale. (Comcast instead plans to spin off NBCUniversal’s cable networks into a separate company, but this change is not expected to affect individual channels or assets.)

Mark Lazarus, the new overseer of SpinCo networks including MSNBC, would love to make room for more GOP-leaning voices on the network.

[syberasya]

Mark from Burrows VN

[sebfreak]

[six-demon-bag]

THE LAZARUS EFFECT (2015) dir. David Gelb

[sherlock-is-ace]

If I had a nickel for every time David Tennant played a character thousands of years old was in a church fighting a character played by Mark Gatiss who came back from the dead but wrong and also had a connection to the london blitz, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

[aarontveit]

THE LAZARUS EFFECT (2015) + dir. David Gelb

[fallenangelblade]

he put. A HANDPRINT. on his SKIN!!!! the first time they met

[sealhaus]

nefarious beanpole

This is the only thing not related to school I’ve been able to do in like, 2 weeks. Save me winter break winter break save me.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Lachlan Cartwright at Politico:

Inside 30 Rock — the iconic skyscraper synonymous with a satirical TV sitcom — a select group of prominent Comcast executives are busy drawing up lists. In a process that internally has been likened to the Hunger Games, the top brass, including NBC’s Cesar Conde and Rebecca Blumenstein and MSNBC’s Rebecca Kutler, are dividing anchors, hosts and correspondents into a few buckets as MSNBC prepares to spin off from its mothership, NBC News. There are those NBC News wants and MSNBC doesn’t. The ones MSNBC is keen to nab that NBC is happy to see go. And the lucky few whom both networks would love to keep, granting those journalists the luxury of deciding between the two. Sunday Today Show anchor and Morning Joe co-host Willie Geist is one of the rare exceptions that will be allowed to appear on both channels. But layoffs await a sizable number of those neither network wants. It’s a clusterfuck,” a person familiar with the negotiations told me. This is, by many accounts, a time of soul searching for MSNBC. After the election, the liberal network’s primetime ratings cratered, falling by 57 percent in the key 25-to-54 demo after Election Day. But in recent months, MSNBC’s faithful have tuned back in, and it regularly draws more viewers than its main rival, CNN. Rachel Maddow, the star of the network and its highest-rated host, is, at least for now, back on air five nights a week. And a second Donald Trump presidency seems to have provided a new sense of purpose to a network beloved by the anti-Trump resistance.

Still, the looming split from NBC has stirred deep uncertainty within MSNBC — not just about who stays and who goes, but about what kind of network it wants to be and whether it can survive on its own. Will its future be beholden to resistance viewers, or do they want to hire nonpartisan journalists focused on scoops and beating out their soon-to-be rivals at NBC News? How they square that and resolve those competing interests will define the network’s future. To the surprise of staffers Comcast announced late last year that it was, largely, getting out of the cable TV business. Eleven channels will depart the NBC mothership later this year, including CNBC, USA, E!, Syfy and, of course, MSNBC. For lack of a better name, Comcast has so far dubbed the new entity “SpinCo,” and tasked company veteran Mark Lazarus with running it and ensuring the new entity does not end up in palliative care. He has departed his palatial 51st floor office (where Comcast’s best and brightest enjoy sweeping views of Manhattan) for an office on the much more modest 6th floor that was previously empty office space but where all of SpinCo will be located until later this year.

Announced two weeks before the election, SpinCo turned out to be well timed. The decision to split off the cable networks came from the company’s longtime CEO (and founder’s son) Brian Roberts. The primary driver was the continued decline of cable TV (when was the last time you watched Oxygen?) and its drag on Comcast’s share price. But the move comes with possible political upside too: Comcast is consciously uncoupling an asset that reliably provokes the president’s hatred. Just last week, Trump unleashed on Roberts on Truth Social, labeling MSNBC “fake news.” “Comcast, which also has the ailing network known as NBC, is trying to stay away from lawsuits by disassociating NBC from MSNBC, but it won’t work. Comcast, the owner of both, and its Chairman, Brian Roberts, are a disgrace to the integrity of Broadcasting!!!,” Trump posted.

Extricating MSNBC and building up SpinCo mean big changes, some of which are only visible behind the scenes, and some of which will drastically alter what viewers see at home. Election expert Steve Kornacki is taking his “Kornacki cam” to NBC, or “RemainCo” as it is widely known within 30 Rock. (The same day Kornacki’s new deal became public it was also announced that Antonia Hylton — a current NBC News correspondent — would join MSNBC as a co-host and correspondent.) Longtime anchor José Díaz-Balart is due to depart MSNBC for NBC as MSNBC shutters its operation in Miami. The 11th Hour host and NBC News senior business analyst Stephanie Ruhle, who also pops up on the Today Show, will stick with MSNBC but may have to lose her second title, which she adores. Another familiar face from the Today Show NBC News Political and National Correspondent Jacob Soboroff, who is well liked by Kutler, is expected to land at MSNBC.

One of the biggest shocks of the spinoff is that MSNBC will lose the newsgathering talent of NBC. While most people at home will just notice the new hosts, behind the scenes MSNBC is creating an entire newsroom from scratch. Until now, MSNBC directly employed anchors and producers but turned to NBC News when they needed Richard Engel in Ukraine or Vaughn Hillyard at the White House or Keir Simmons outside Buckingham Palace. Now they’ll have to build up their own roster of correspondents and reporters, with about 100 jobs to fill. Who they hire and the mission they set them on will go a long way towards determining the future of the network.

Over the past two months, I’ve spoken with more than three dozen MSNBC staffers, top talent and executives, as well as industry insiders familiar with the network, trying to understand how MSNBC plans to navigate its test of relevance and longevity. While executives toast what they hope is a rebirth, anxious employees have been asking me if I know whether they’ll still have jobs this summer and, if so, where they’ll be working once they decamp from 30 Rock. Many were granted anonymity to speak candidly without jeopardizing their careers. On the air, MSNBC continues to give viewers the blow-by-blow of Trump and the fate of democracy. Behind the scenes, staffers operate with limited information about their fates and the editorial direction of the new leadership. A number of people there likened it to being asked to fly a plane as it’s being built. So far, Kutler, who took over as head of MSNBC in February, has impressed the executive producers of the network’s shows in their regular Wednesday morning meeting by being more visible and more hands on than her predecessor, Rashida Jones. She’s also slowly, subtly shifting the tone of those shows. In those meetings executive producers have been told by the new boss to incorporate more hopeful news to give viewers a break from the bleakness. They have been instructed to incorporate guests with competing viewpoints and to be more measured in their use of breaking news banners so that not every Trump outrage seems like a five-alarm fire. Kutler has also told them she wants more stylistic gloss; she plans to bring back hair and makeup for all guests and wants to see more of the anchors’ faces and less b-roll. Despite these adjustments, though, there’s still plenty of sky-on-fire rhetoric from the network during the early days of Trump 2.0, the type of coverage its diehard liberal viewership craves. The stakes are high. MSNBC needs to stay relevant as they lose the reporting heft of NBC News. As CNN has moved on from Trump 1.0 resistance heroes Don Lemon and Jim Acosta and The Washington Post’s owner now seems far less concerned about democracy’s dark fate as he kowtows to Trump, MSNBC is the primary major resistance outlet left standing as Trump’s second term creates an unrelenting news cycle. If Lazarus and Kutler can figure it out, they can safeguard the future of MSNBC. If they screw it up, they risk alienating loyal viewers and tanking the network.

[...] The fate of Willie Geist — who does double duties on Morning Joe and the weekend edition of The Today Show — has been decided. Geist is too much of a talent for either network to pass up, and he’ll be the rare instance of split custody after the SpinCo divorce. He has been featuring more prominently on NBC of late, filling in for Kelly Clarkson on her daytime talk show and hosting the red carpet for SNL’s 50th. But he has been a fixture on Morning Joe for years and Scarborough and Brzezinski would struggle to adequately replace him in the third chair. Should there be a last-minute snafu with Geist, I’m told both Joe and Mika are fans of sportswriter and podcaster Pablo Torre, who has been featured more regularly on Morning Joe. Behind the scenes, the 100-person newsroom being created is a bright spot for a beleaguered industry battered by layoffs. It’s being overseen by Scott Matthews, a former colleague of Kutler’s from CNN, has already started advertising for a DC bureau chief (a key job for setting the tone of coverage for a political network that has leaned heavily on NBC’s Washington staff) and filled key roles such as the VP of newsgathering, poaching Erin Zimmerman from ABC News. When it comes to reporters, Matthews is looking for people who not only write, but also shoot, produce, edit and report while juggling the technology necessary to do a live report solo. The campaign embed model is what execs want to emulate, deployed across all areas of news.

Politico reports on how MSNBC is facing a critical moment in their existence as a network, with the channel being set to be uncoupled from NBC News with the spinning off of almost all Comcast cable nets into a separate company.

Read the full article on Politico.

[fisahli]

i didnt watch sherlock until more recently but MYCROFT IS IN DR WHO???

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It's very hard to read this as just Damian talking to King Fire Bull

Lazarus Planet: Omega

rather than Waid's legendary bat-wank.

Like... if we're just supposed to talk it as Damian talking to Fire Bull... what did Nezha do that impressed him or makes him think he's so much better than Fire Bull?

but no most likely we're supposed to read it as 'a bunch of insecure middle aged men don't like that damian is confident so he has to make the audience know he never thinks he can surpass bruce. because waid is on the bat-sue train'

Waid honestly does read as... pretty nostalgia heavy, silver-age fanboy in his stories, so I'm not surprised. I mean ... a lot of the rhetoric behind Kingdom Come is 'the corrupt new world is forgetting the good silver age values and the youths are easily lead astray without the influence of good older people'.

For contrast this is like. the Anti NTT. where a big theme is conflict with the parents and eventually surpassing them or defining yourself away from them.

[onlylonelylatino]

Blue Beetle, Cyborg, Shazam, Zatanna, Power Girl by Riccardo Federici

[fandom-gurrl]

BEFORE READING THIS, THIS DOODLE IS MADE FOR FUN AND THIS IS JUST MY INTERPRETATION!! IF YOU DON’T LIKE MY TAKE, THAT’S FINE!! ILL MAKE A FOLLOW UP REGARDING TO THE CHANGES HERE SOON!!

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this is my interpretation or ig take on the cast of a horror film, the lazarus effect. i feel that there would’ve been potential and don’t get me wrong, the acting’s perfect and phenomenal, even some scenes (especially with zoe’s nightmare scenes) are amazing. it’s just i hate the film’s overall execution and pacing… plus the plot’s cliche, the writing’s kinda ass, and the character interactions have little to no chemistry. so i figured why not give the main cast my spin to it!!

[hannahwatcheshorror]

THE LAZARUS EFFECT (2015) + REWATCH

😾Dog Dies

Intense film that deserves a lot of credit for what it has done. Extremely polished and well developed though some of the deaths happen too quickly and don’t make entire sense with the progression of the plot? Not a bad film at all, the scene just before the ending is beautiful and intense

REWATCH REVIEW

A movie that takes place in a spooky lab where they are attempting to bring things back from the dead, what could go wrong? It really is a feast for the eyes, this film.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Scientists try to make a life serum but spoiler alert it fails. Olivia Wilde gets FUCKED but she turns into a spooky lady with a strange backstory. She is scary for sure. She kills everyone and then makes a little army for herself.

REWATCH REVIEW

A bunch of hot and sexy scientists are working on a serum that reanimates people which sounds like witchcraft but is also just science and depends on how long a thing has been dead I guess. They brought back a dog without telling us how long it had been dead. Either way they had started to figure out a creepy solution to death but some men with money stepped in so they only had one shot to do it in the middle of the night. The team snuck in to do science in the dark and… Big accident! Olivia Wilde (Zoe) got electrocuted and died! Very sad for Mark Duplass’ character, Frank. He tries to bring her back with conventional medicine but it doesn’t work now they must try The Serum.

The Serum is able to bring Zoe back but she is different somehow, her brain is firing at 100% power instead of 10% she can hear things she shouldn’t be able to. Zoe is becoming more and because of this she knows that the gang sees that she has come back different, come back wrong, so she is going to start going on the offensive when it comes to these silly skin bags. She tries to wash her hands and water hurts, the world is harsh on her and she doesn’t know why, I mean, she DIED for goodness sake and now no one is being nice to her!

Now our spunky recorder is being thrown into a dream sequence and we get a theory that maybe Zoe’s soul is stuck in a dream too? Theories about Zoe being ripped from Hell are one thing but her just having a little dream is another. Either way we get our first death and I don’t know why I said the deaths were quick before I guess I was just sad that Donald Glover was the first to go. It felt fast an hour in to say goodbye to that lovely man, I’m sorry. Anyway things really start to fall apart now, the gang start to realize Zoe is up to no good and she kills another member (sad!) before Frank and Eva can run away and try to hide. This works momentarily before Frank is outed when he attempts to trick Zoe which of course doesn’t work.

For some reason Zoe really hates Eva and keeps sending her to the Hell realm but Eva uses it to her advantage. They do that little fake out where you think that Eva solves the mystery of who set the fire in Zoe's nightmares and can get out alive but instead they just snap her neck real quick so that is fine. The scene in the hallway with Baby Zoe and Evil Zoe was really neat and fun so it felt kinda lame that it wasn’t “real” or whatever you would like to call it. In the end, Zoe lines up all her friends' corpses and starts to pump them full of serum to make an army of evil little serum babies. Yuck! Wack! Evil!

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[hidesalvation]

baby boy's fresh