Telefuture!
10/21/10 10:37 PM Filed in: Work
Coming of age during this technology shift was a complete and total non-event. Only now is the predicted impact being felt by corporations and consumers alike.
Via boingboing.
Human Target
10/17/10 12:56 PM Filed in: Work
My current gig. Co-exec, consulting, general dogsbody. Promises to be an exciting season. It’s been super darn exciting making it. Super darn. Oh, and the promo is wrong. Season 2 premieres Wednesday, Nov. 17th, 2010. Seems Lonestar’s demise prompted some schedule shifting.
Here's (the exact) Johnny (you're looking for)!
08/11/10 10:30 AM Filed in: Play
Neat. From the Los Angeles Times:
Here’s Johnny online.
Carson Entertainment Group, which owns the archive of the late-night host's 30 years on "The Tonight Show," is set to announce Wednesday that it has digitized all 3,300 hours of existing footage from the program and created a searchable online database for producers and researchers.
Here’s Johnny online.
Apple TV update looming?
05/29/10 11:35 AM Filed in: Play
I’ve been using Apple TVs since their introduction. Well, trying to use them, to be precise. At the moment I have three in use wirelessly linked to different Macs. Without warning the links lose themselves and that’s when the voodoo begins. I’ll spend hours resetting, restarting, resynching to get things working again without success. Then, for some sunspotted reason, things will align themselves and behave. In spite of the trouble, I’ve successfully ditched my satellite TV provider. We’re no longer paying for TV unless it’s something we specifically want via the iTunes Store.
Now, it is rumored, that a major update is on the way. An update that might do away with local storage altogether and put all my video, audio and photos on the web. Or something. Whatever it is, it couldn’t be worse than than the current setup. Maybe. Hoping for the best.
CBS loves it some iPad
Another aspect of the iPad that stands out for CBS is that the user base is already at one million. That’s important for a content company as large as CBS because while there are other interactive TV initiatives — like Roku, Boxee and others — those products haven’t achieved the reach that the iPad has.
I’ve been iPadding for a little over a week (using Macs since 1987) and can assuredly say that this little appliance has become a solid member of my family. The biggest hits so far -- Alice and Wonderland (here) and Marvel’s comic book reader app.
K.I.S.S.: Writing to be grok'd
02/16/10 05:55 PM Filed in: Work
iPad via Mad TV
01/29/10 11:41 PM Filed in: Play
Police Story Teller
01/08/10 09:07 AM Filed in: Work
Thanks, Mr. Gerber.
I couldn’t have been more than 12 or 13 when I found a copy of Joseph Wambaugh’s novel, The New Centurions, on my mom’s nightstand. Read it. Then saw the movie with George C. Scott and Stacey Keach. Loved it. More than anything, I was intrigued with Joseph Wambaugh. His cop tales were so much more than what Jack Webb was turning out. Wambaugh’s stuff was sexy and violent and for a kid in the midwest growing tired of “Just the facts, ma’am,” Wambaugh’s cops were the perfect antidote. David Gerber brought it to our living room. Cool.
I couldn’t have been more than 12 or 13 when I found a copy of Joseph Wambaugh’s novel, The New Centurions, on my mom’s nightstand. Read it. Then saw the movie with George C. Scott and Stacey Keach. Loved it. More than anything, I was intrigued with Joseph Wambaugh. His cop tales were so much more than what Jack Webb was turning out. Wambaugh’s stuff was sexy and violent and for a kid in the midwest growing tired of “Just the facts, ma’am,” Wambaugh’s cops were the perfect antidote. David Gerber brought it to our living room. Cool.
Action News!!!
01/06/10 10:17 PM Filed in: Play
What was the question?
12/27/09 11:03 PM Filed in: Work
A brilliant bit of early television for this holiday season.
Poke around here for some truly wonderful stuff.
Poke around here for some truly wonderful stuff.
Dave, I Hardly Knew Ye
10/27/09 10:36 AM Filed in: Work
I'm working with Nell this year on Warehouse 13. I hope I can crack a good fart joke.
- I was the second female writer ever hired at Late Night. When I applied for the job in 1988, I had no way of knowing how much the odds were stacked against me. In 27 years, Late Night and Late Show have hired only seven female writers. These seven women have spent a total of 17 years on staff combined. By extrapolation, male writers have racked up a collective 378 years writing jokes for Dave (based on an average writing room of 14 men, the size of the current Late Show staff).
"V" The First 8 Minutes
10/23/09 10:14 PM Filed in: Work
ABC is shoving the first 8 minutes of "V" out to the world. Kind have seen it all before.
Working for Fox
10/19/09 09:54 AM Filed in: Work
A few years ago I was employed as a writer working on several Fox Network TV shows. Even then, while the paycheck was nice, I had some qualms about working for an organization whose news division was so... well, idiotic. And dangerous. Now Newsweek's Jacob Weisberg has a few thoughts.
Update: Jason Linkins on Huff Post. Some galling video, too.
- That Rupert Murdoch may tilt the news rightward more for commercial than ideological reasons is beside the point. What matters is the way that Fox's model has invaded the bloodstream of the American media. By showing that ideologically distorted news can drive ratings, Ailes has provoked his rivals at CNN and MSNBC to develop a variety of populist and ideological takes on the news. In this way, Fox hasn't just corrupted its own coverage. Its example has made all of cable news unpleasant and unreliable.
- And weepy Glenn Beck has begun to exhibit a Strangelovean concern about government invading our bloodstream by vaccinating people for swine flu. With this misinformation campaign, Fox stands to become the first network to actively try to kill its viewers.
Update: Jason Linkins on Huff Post. Some galling video, too.
Beyond Our Control
08/08/09 10:57 PM Filed in: Play
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A Golden Age
01/25/09 01:26 PM Filed in: Play
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The Archive of American Television
01/06/09 06:40 AM Filed in: Play
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Here Today. Gone Tomorrow. Back on Tuesday, Maybe.
12/10/08 05:23 PM Filed in: Work
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Jekyll
11/13/08 07:22 PM Filed in: Play
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Jekyll
11/13/08 07:22 PM Filed in: Play
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If You Won't Listen to Me...
10/29/08 09:16 PM Filed in: Play
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Placing Product in Your 30 Rock
10/23/08 11:21 PM Filed in: Work
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Murdoch, Redstone & The Credit Crunch
10/21/08 08:03 AM Filed in: Work
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Distracted? Let Colin Explain It All For You
10/19/08 10:52 AM Filed in: Rant
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Digital. Not Digitalis.
10/16/08 10:58 AM Filed in: Play
50 Years Ago Today
10/16/08 07:50 AM Filed in: Work
Another Sci Fi and More Channel
10/06/08 10:21 PM Filed in: Play
Remember when TV used to promise to take you places you’d never been and show you wondrous things? The AMC Network is beginning to convince me that it remembers that promise. MAD MEN is part of that. Writer/director Michael Nankin is working on a series set in WWII about downed B-17 fliers trapped behind enemy lines. And the novel Carter Beats the Devil about the trials and adventures of an early 20th Century magician is slated for production. As the networks keep regurgitating the same old same old it’s heartening and inspiring to see AMC (and A&E) reaching up to embrace ambitious stories that can elevate and entertain.
My Guilty Ghostly Pleasure
09/26/08 10:43 PM Filed in: Play
Check out the clip below to see some of their “findings.”
Fender Benders
09/23/08 08:23 PM Filed in: Play
Over at The Zicree Simkins Podcast Marc Zicree and I had a great conversation with TV writer/producer Lee Goldberg. Lee tells a great tale of going to Germany to help the TV industry over there get a grip on how to get and keep a growing audience. To get a glimpse of one of Germany’s more intriguing efforts check out the clip below. Ladies and Gents, ALARM FOR COBRA 11.
Hey, I (Re)Wrote a Pilot!
09/19/08 05:10 PM Filed in: Work
Read the Variety article here.
The Wire - Season 5
08/30/08 07:47 PM Filed in: Play
“When you walk through the garden you got to watch your back.”
If you’re a fan, you know. The Wire is the best show now not on television (unless it’s on your DVD player and right this moment it’s on mine). If you haven’t seen it – or maybe you tried it and gave up – there will come a time when you will become immersed. And you’ll become a zealot. You will gift seasons of The Wire to your family, your friends and to your mailman.