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philgyford : Girls who eat their feelings, girls who don't eat anything... | Ask Metafilter - List of scenes from movies that explain the different cliques within a school. Looking forward to the YouTube compilation.
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joshua : Television Tropes & Idioms - wjw
Rod Begbie : Television Tropes & Idioms - "This wiki is a catalog of the tricks of the trade for writing fiction." Tell your Checkov's Gun from your Deus Ex Machina. [via] #
philgyford : Television Tropes & Idioms - Home Page - Big wiki cataloging "devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations". Big, big time sink.
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deusx : Retro Television Network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "The Retro Television Network (RTN) is a system of television stations primarily airing classic television programming from the 1950s through the 1980s, such as Leave it to Beaver, Kojak, McHale's Navy, Adam-12, Emergency!, and The Rockford File
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deusx : Thats Incredible - "Following in the footsteps of "Real People" (1979), this show took a look at the more unusual sides of nature, medicine and human endeavor. Segments ranged from the uplifting (young people overcoming severe handicaps to lead normal lives)
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deusx : Sources: Daisies, Eli Stone and Dirty Sexy Canceled - E! Online - Damn. The crappy new Knight Rider continues on, yet shows like Pushing Daisies and Wonderfalls get cancelled. ""I think the writers’ strike did it," Chenoweth (Daisies' Olive Snook) tells us tonight of the cancellation. "I thi
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deusx : Pushing Daisies: Six Ways Pushing Daisies Made Your Inner Nerd Cry Tears of Geeky Joy - "Nerds are renowned the world over for our extensive knowledge of possibly useless trivia, our obsessive devotion to our favorite books and films, and our resulting difficulties communicating with non-nerds. Thanks to modern internet culture, however
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deusx : Pushing Daisies: Why Pushing Daisies Is The Best TV Show You're Not Watching - All of you bastards out there need to start watching this show. "I wish that headline wasn't true, but the ratings back me up; not enough people are watching ABC's Pushing Daisies. Bryan Fuller's secretly twisted yet romantic detectiv
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5 month ago
Andy Baio : Pirating the Olympics, Then and Now - Back in 2004, I wrote about how high-quality videos from the Olympics in Athens were being digitized and posted online, in defiance of the networks and the IOC's rules. At the time, NBC's online coverage was pioneering, but still restrictive by today's
nelson : Pirating the Olympics - Andy does another nice investigation into TV downloads
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7 month ago
gleuschk : McSweeney's Internet Tendency: The Opening Act From the Original, Unused Teleplay of Lost's Pilot Episode. - spoilers! spoilers!
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8 month ago
wearehugh : May Sweeps Sees Record Low Ratings - TVWeek - News - ha ha
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8 month ago
philgyford : YouTube - Sony Bravia LCD TV Advert (Play Doh) & "The Making of" - A TV ad with stop-motion rabbits (which I hadn't seen until now) followed by a little making of doc. Amazing amounts of coordination to get it all done. (via Ted Mills)
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8 month ago
nelson : Happy Bea-Day! - Bea Arthur's birthday; ten video clips to remind you what an amazing performer she is. Don't miss her singing about getting high with Rock Hudson.
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8 month ago
philgyford : 2.0 Expo 2008: Clay Shirky - Or watch Clay give that "how do they find the time?" talk in person on this video. Worth it; he's an awesome speaker. (via Daring Fireballl)
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8 month ago
Linkorama : Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Clay Shirky's speech at Web2expo
Andy Baio : Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - transcript of Clay Shirky's excellent keynote from the Web 2.0 Expo; watch it instead [via]
philgyford : Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody - Clay on the answer to "where do they [gamers, Wikipedias, bloggers, etc.] find the time?" By watching less TV. Great stuff.
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9 month ago
Rod Begbie : Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Clay Shirky's talk from web2expo, which was by far the best of the keynotes. "Desperate Housewives essentially functioned as a kind of cognitive heat sink, dissipating thinking that might otherwise have built up and caused society to overheat." #
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10 month ago
Andy Baio : Cultural history of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" - incredible essay, with clips of how it's been rediscovered and used by TV, film, and other artists
philgyford : Clapclap.org is serially monomaniacal: Hallelujah - 2007 article about Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' and its covers. Also good on 'The OC'. More decent writing about TV please. (via Blech)
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10 month ago
gleuschk : Lost: A theory on time travel - either massive spoilers or hallucinatory speculation, depending
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philgyford : BBC drops Grange Hill | Media | guardian.co.uk - Damn. I've still been enjoying recent series, and the next one will be the last. I bet you it (and Top of the Pops) will be brought back by future BBC decision makers, like Dr Who was.
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gleuschk : Watch with Kristin - Best News Ever! Joss Whedon Spills Exclusive Deets on His New Series - w/ Eliza Dushku, yay!
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11 month ago
gleuschk : YouTube - LOST in 8:15 (Official Recap S1-S3) - tonight tonight tonight woo wooo!
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12 month ago
philgyford : The Believer - Interview with David Simon - Creator-Writer-Producer of 'The Wire' interviewed by Nick Hornby. (via Kottke)
adamrg : Nick Hornby's Interview with David Simon
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12 month ago
nelson : The Wire: 4 seasons in 4 minutes - Amazing bit of editing for the best TV show ever
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13 month ago
gleuschk : A new trailer, a new list, a new theory - cantwaitcantwaitcantwait
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13 month ago
plasticbag : The BBC has lost Neighbours to Five, and is now commissioning a new Australian soap opera to fill the gap... - Seems a little over-literal to me. Next on the BBC: 23! Will John Bayer be able to stop terrorists who have made time run slightly faster in this taut near-real time drama that's been sped up by 1/24th?
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14 month ago
plasticbag : Interesting news - Billie Piper is to return to Doctor Who for three episodes in the new season... - Don't quite know how they're going to pull that particularly one off.
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