Category: News
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Many Updates On the Way
So, last year, for the final 100 days of 2015, I took on an ambitious project. I decided I was going to do a vlog a day. That… was a bad idea. I did it, but, man, was it a ridiculous amount of work. This year, I’m going to try something a little less labor…
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More Balanced Commerical Sound Almost Mandated
For those of us who still watch TV real time (sometimes), there’s good news coming in from Washington. It’s about to be mandated that the volume of commercials be comparable to the volume of the show they appear during. That means no more having to clap your hands over your ears when a car commercial…
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Review and Coming Attractions
New monthly bit here. Just a quick note catching up and looking ahead. A kind of regular check and balance to make sure things are moving in some direction that vaguely resembles “forward.” In Review Things have been kind of quiet here. Many other concerns have kept me from getting to the backlog of reviews…
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Trenches Finally Sees the Light of Day
A few years ago, my friend Kelley was involved in the production of a sci-fi series called Trenches that really piqued my interest. It was an online series with some pretty hefty backing (Disney/ABC) about a bunch of space marines shooting it out on an alien planet when things go from bad to worse. Unfortunately,…
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NBC-Comcast Merger: Bad for Us?
It looks like Comcast is well on its way to becoming part-owner of NBC-Universal. According to a post at the New York Time DealBook blog: General Electric has reached a tentative agreement to buy Vivendi’s 20 percent stake in NBC Universal for about $5.8 billion, helping clear the path to a sale of the television…
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Atlantis Sunk
Less than a year after the original Stargate series made the jump to direct-to-video movies, Stargate: Atlantis seems to have gotten the ax. It won’t be completely gone right away, though. Thanks to the odd way the Sci Fi Channel breaks up its seasons, the current (fifth) season will run through January some time. Then…
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Aaaand We’re Back!
Good news for everyone: The Writer’s Strike is Over! Everyone gets to go back to work tomorrow and, if all goes well with the ratification of the contract (which I’d imagine it will), those of us sitting in front of out TVs can expect to see new episodes of old shows by April. This has…
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But what about my shows?
With the writers on strike, some shows are in immediate trouble. Others have between a few weeks and a couple of months before they run into trouble. The LA Times put together a nice grid about it the other day. And, for Lost fans, today’s Ask Ausiello over at TVGuide.com points out: Question: What does…