Rising on Substack this week: Film & TV

Two signals nobody else shows: the writers picking up new recommendations from other publications, and the ones climbing the leaderboards between my reads. Follower growth joins them on Nov 7, once there's a week of daily readings.

Category Any size Under 10k followers 10k to 100k 100k or more Recommendations read 6 days ago

Most new recommenders, last 30 days

Publications that started recommending each writer in the last 30 days, by Substack's own start date, with 12 weeks of context. Big writers collect recommenders fastest; pick a size to see who's rising among writers like you.

Sonny Bunch

1M followers · #12 Film & TV Bestsellers

+11 in 30 days 53 in all

18 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Ted Hope

54k followers · #6 Film & TV Bestsellers

+10 in 30 days 95 in all

23 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Sean Fennessey

43k followers · #3 Film & TV Bestsellers

+10 in 30 days 57 in all

24 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

behind the femme

36k followers · #82 Film & TV Bestsellers

+10 in 30 days 50 in all

23 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Raphaël — The Long Take

13k followers · #24 Film & TV Rising

+9 in 30 days 54 in all

20 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Shea Serrano

132k followers · #2 Film & TV Bestsellers

+8 in 30 days 55 in all

19 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Blue Cenobite

10k followers · #20 Film & TV Bestsellers

+6 in 30 days 48 in all

15 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Hunter Harris

270k followers · #1 Film & TV Bestsellers

+5 in 30 days 96 in all

23 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Entertainment Strategy Guy

179k followers · #4 Film & TV Bestsellers

+5 in 30 days 68 in all

12 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Dario Llinares

4.7k followers · #55 Film & TV Bestsellers

+4 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 50 in all

16 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Marya E. Gates

9k followers · #33 Film & TV Bestsellers

+4 in 30 days 57 in all

9 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Alex Segal

2.9k followers · #81 Film & TV Bestsellers

+4 in 30 days 45 in all

16 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

New recommenders per week, last 12 weeks; the orange bar is this week to date. Same scale in every panel. Dated by Substack; only recommendations still live.