Conversations with Ross

Tweet Last week I attended the 8th Annual New York Television Festival. As a lifelong fan of late night TV, this was one of the events I was most looking forward to. Moderated by MSNBC’s Willie Geist, the panel featured Colin Jost (Saturday Night Live), Eric and Justin Stangel (The Late Show with David Letterman), A.D. Miles (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon), Steve Bodow (The Daily Show), and Barry...

Tweet Last week I attended the 8th Annual New York Television Festival. Here’s a summary of the Graham Yost keynote. The second day of the festival featured keynote speaker Graham Yost. Graham is a screenwriter, who is currently the showrunner on FX’s Justified. The conversation was moderated by columnist John Sellers. Graham talked about breaking in, his time writing for Hey Dude and Full Hou...

Tweet If you’re a baseball fan check out my new podcast, Replacement Level. I recently had the chance to interview Sean Forman from Baseball-Reference. On this episode of the Replacement Level Podcast Baseball-Reference founder Sean Forman joined me to discuss WAR (wins above replacement). Sean talked about how the stat was initially created, how it’s currently calculated, and differen...

Tweet If you’re a baseball fan check out my new podcast, Replacement Level. I recently had the chance to interview Jonah Keri from Grantland.  We discussed the baseball Hall of Fame, the “steroid era”, and what’s next with advanced metrics. We also hit on why some players get overvalued and undervalued throughout their careers, re-evaluated the accomplishments of several players who play...

Tweet For those of you enjoying the Conversations with Ross who might also be baseball fans, I want to introduce you to my newest podcast, Replacement Level. Replacement Level will feature interviews with players both active and retired, as well as various media members, and personalities from the around the game. There will be lots of talk on the Hall of Fame, advanced numbers, baseball myths, a...

Tweet This past week I attended the 7th annual New York Television Festival as both a press member and a ticket holder to several events. These are my thoughts on what I saw: Tuesday The festival kicked off with a screening of Jonah Hill’s new animated show, Allen Gregory. Allen Gregory is a flamboyant seven-year-old prodigy (think a young Truman Capote) who attempts to navigate the world of pu...

Tweet My quick conversation with Allan Loeb.  He talks writing, breaking in, and what mistakes he sees young screenwriters make most often. He also spoke about why he quit writing at one point in 2002 and what made him come back after his time away. This interview took place before Allan’s Pitch Perfect workshop at the 2011 New York Television Festival. Allan is a screenwriter whose credi...

Tweet Despite the emergence of Jersey Shore and two more Real Housewife shows, The 09-10 TV season was a good one.  Several new shows added a refreshing tone to the norm and some already great shows got better.  Overall I think the Emmy telecast was pretty solid, Fallon kept things moving along , the show ended on time and several deserving actors, writers, directors and producers were rewarded�...