11 days ago
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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4 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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6 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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7 month ago
wearehugh : May Sweeps Sees Record Low Ratings - TVWeek - News - ha ha
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7 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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7 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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7 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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7 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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7 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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9 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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10 month ago
gleuschk : YouTube - LOST in 8:15 (Official Recap S1-S3) - tonight tonight tonight woo wooo!
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10 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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11 month ago
nelson : The Wire: 4 seasons in 4 minutes - Amazing bit of editing for the best TV show ever
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12 month ago
gleuschk : A new trailer, a new list, a new theory - cantwaitcantwaitcantwait
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12 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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12 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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12 month ago
gleuschk : Virginia Heffernan on Sesame Street - Children's TV has changed so much that a preschool classic on DVD now carries a warning.
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13 month ago
plasticbag : Revenue from print advertising is in radical decline with online advertising taking up much of the slack.. - If I was a betting man, I'd say that you could expect broadcast television advertising to be the next to be dramatically hit, in favour of targetted advertising packaged around on-demand download video.
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13 month ago
plasticbag : Vimeo.com has the world's best Log In screen... - Cal reminded me about it the other day, and since I'm in the mood for a good bit of vibrant web design action I decided to post it. Feels nice to be posting things again, by the way.
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13 month ago
plasticbag : John Gisby's headed over to Channel 4. He's a nice chap who I rate and wish all the best at his new job. - Channel 4 seem to be assembling quite an interesting team of people, including quite a lot of my favourite ex-BBC-ers. Very different structure by all accounts. Interested to see what happens there.
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13 month ago
Rod Begbie : YouTube - Doctor Who, Children in Need Special - Time Crash - I completely forgot this was on tonight. Lovely little bit of Who geekery. Number 5 was "my" doctor too -- the first one I remember watching. [via] #
plasticbag : The BBC's Children in Need Doctor Who special generated a little squee in my mind that I feel compelled to share with the internets.. - It's a dumb, sentimental and clumsy little micro episode, but Peter Davison was my Doctor too and therefore it means something to me. You rock Peter Davison!
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