Michael John Roberts, Animator and Director on ‘Bojack Horseman,’ ‘Triptank,’ Dies at 48
- Newsrooms
- 4
- Last 3 hours
- 0 reports
- Momentum
- Slowing
3 in the 3 before
Cooling
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 4 newsrooms by 8:17pm AEDT. Calls like this were right 93% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 74% of the past week’s 4243 stories, and number 89 of 551 in Film & TV.Why it’s moving
- ScoopThe Hollywood Reporter had it 1 hr before anyone else.
1Michael John Roberts, an animator and director of such series as Comedy Central’s TripTank and Netflix’s BoJack Horseman, died November 11 of glioblastoma, in Los Angeles. He was 48. His death was announced by his family, including his wife, the One Life to Live and Gossip Girl actor Bree Williamson
Variety didn’t include a summary, so this is Deadline’s, from its report on the same story.3
The story so far
4 newsroomsCooling- Reports
- 4
- Newsrooms and sources
- 4
- Last 3 hours
- 0
Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (0 in the last three hours, 3 in the three before).
First with it: The Hollywood Reporter, 1 hr 10 min before anyone else.
Reported by 4 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
How it spread
- Newsrooms
- 4
- Over
- 2.7 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 1.7 hr
Newsrooms on it each counted once
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 8:08am AEDT | The Hollywood Reporter | 1 |
| 9:18am AEDT | Deadline | 2 |
| 9:50am AEDT | TheWrap | 3 |
| 10:49am AEDT | Variety | 4 |
Bigger than 96% of Film & TV stories this week. Reached three newsrooms in 1.7 hr; a typical Film & TV story that gets there takes 5.8 hr.
Where it’s heading
Probably peakedStories in this position rarely added another newsroom from here.


