Variety Loses Television Editor Adalian

COMMENTS (10)

• It takes a big man to admit he’s wrong.
  So you won’t get forgiven by Joe….

  Comment by reelbusy — Tuesday April 22, 2008 @ 1:47pm PDT  Reply to this post

• yah and he’s still a dick.

  Comment by Troy — Tuesday April 22, 2008 @ 2:11pm PDT  Reply to this post

• As someone working “on the inside” of the TV industry for more than 20 years, I can honestly say that Joe is one of the most moral, fair and kind guys in the business. Comments about appearance are uncalled for, and if your experience is that Joe is a dick… it’s probably because you treated him like shit and then flipped out when he didn’t return your call ASAP.

  This is a good thing. Joe is still in the biz, and Variety gets new blood.

  Comment by TV Showrunner — Tuesday April 22, 2008 @ 3:03pm PDT  Reply to this post

• First James Hibberd from TV Week to Reporter, now Joe Adalian from Variety to TV Week, so…by transitive property, someone from the Reporter now has to go to Variety?

  Comment by beetle — Tuesday April 22, 2008 @ 4:30pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Good for Joe. Shame on Variety for letting him go, but this should put TV Week on the map… big time. I’ve been following his stuff since he was at the New York Post!

  Comment by Marco La Maida — Tuesday April 22, 2008 @ 4:51pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Beetle-

  Happened months ago! C. Littleton didn’t leave HR while at the top for no good reason.

  I’m all for Joe, Ms. Littleton, and Trade reporter, in general. Unlike Nikki, they take way too much shit (mainly from within).

  Comment by DL Brown — Tuesday April 22, 2008 @ 4:52pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Congrats to Joe!

  Comment by Gracie W. Ebbing — Tuesday April 22, 2008 @ 4:55pm PDT  Reply to this post

• TV Week? Are you serious? Did anyone tell him that it’s now down to about 30 issues a year and hardly any ads, since Syndication is their bread & butter, and they’ve all stopped advertising except around NATPE and even that’s a far cry from the 90′s heyday. And their website is WAY lame too, and again hardly any ads. The only advantage is that Crain will keep that rag going until Jericho comes back on the air…:-)

  Comment by ERS — Wednesday April 23, 2008 @ 2:31am PDT  Reply to this post

• Not a good reporter. Very biased, and often wrong. He act wouldn’t fly at a real newspaper Coined the term “emerging consensus is” as a backdoor way to write in his own opinions into news stories.

  With his exit, maybe Variety can begin to rehab its shoddy reputation.

  Comment by NotAFan — Wednesday April 23, 2008 @ 10:11am PDT  Reply to this post

• Good for him.

  Comment by Anonymous — Thursday April 24, 2008 @ 8:30am PDT  Reply to this post