Welcome back to fine-tuning with Drew Taylor, your one-stop shop when it comes to animation news and commentary.

Or rather, that's what this podcast would be if Mr. Taylor were actually here this week.

But Drew is out there somewhere right now.

I'd imagine he's now on a plane that's coming back from London, where Mr. Taylor has spent the last couple of days covering the global premiere of Mission Impossible 8.

And just a reminder here that in addition to this podcast, Drew hosts along with Charles Hood, Light the Fuse, which is the official Mission Impossible podcast.

And, well, because the eighth installment of that long-running film series, quick side note, next May 22nd, we're talking about the one

that happens in 2006, will mark the 30th anniversary of the launch of the Mission Impossible film series, which

of course came on the heels of the success of the Mission Impossible TV series.

Huge hit for CBS back in the mid-1960s, ran for seven seasons, and here's a quick side

note on that side note.

Given that the Mission Impossible film series wound up at Paramount in the 1990s,

and more than 20 years later, CBS wound up merging with Viacombe's parent corporation

to eventually form what is now known as Paramount Global. It's just

interesting to see how bold pieces of this IP, the original TV series and the film franchise,

wound up under the control of the same corporate entity. And now, on a side note, on a side note,

which I guess means you're now listening to the

podcast equivalent of Christopher Nolan's Inception. I do want to point out that for a very

brief window of time, we're talking October of 1988 through February of 1990, there was a

revival of the Mission Impossible TV series that ran over

on ABC.

Mind you, this is before Disney bought ABC.

That $19 billion acquisition wouldn't happen until late July of 95.

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