12月 2008
11件の投稿
Time Warner may drop MTV, VH1 →
‘Time Warner Cable subscribers may wind up starting the new year without MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, VH1 and other Viacom-owned cablers on their channel lineup.
Viacom late Tuesday issued a lengthy statement warning that channels may be dropped as of 12:01 a.m. Thursday because of a contract wrangle with Time Warner Cable, the nation’s second-largest cable operator. Time Warner...
4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... 1 ... Happy New Year! →
“If you’re fretting that 2008 is about to end, and that another year has slipped by, don’t panic: you do have some extra time on your hands. one second, to be precise.
On New Year’s Eve, the international authorities charged with keeping precise time will add a single second to our lives. It will be the 24th “leap second” since 1972, and the first since 2005.
If that doesn’t sound like a...
Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy -... →
Readers should know my love for writer Jane Espenson. Well, she’s writing these Webisodes! SO awesome.
Nielsens issue first DVR list →
‘As if to certify that time-shifted TV viewing had attained techno-cultural significance, it’s now the subject of a year-end top 10 list, as the Nielsen Co. has issued a ranking of the programs that saw the biggest increases in DVR use in 2008.
Cable skeins were much more in evidence in a second list that ranked shows in order of the percentage increase attributable to time-shifted...
Joss Whedon reviews 'Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along... →
“I think you should buy the DVD every day forever, and I am totally unbiased.”
Fans bid farewell to Polaroid film →
“Sixty years after Polaroid introduced its first instant camera, the company’s iconic film is disappearing from stores.
Although Polaroid says the film should be available into 2009, this is the final month of its last production year.
Eclipsed by digital photography, Polaroid’s white-bordered prints — and the anticipation they created as their ghostly images...
NBC gives Leno the 10pm slot, five nights a week →
“Jay Leno will host a new comedy/talk show on NBC five nights a week in primetime, beginning in the fall of 2009. The show will originate from Burbank, Calif., and will air Monday through Friday, 10-11 p.m./9-10 p.m. CT.”
This is…. stunning. I can’t believe this… Could this be the beginning of the end of the primetime drama?
Well, at least NBC hasn’t had a new...
Ads on tests add up for teacher →
‘Tom Farber gives a lot of tests. He’s a calculus teacher, after all. So when administrators at Rancho Bernardo, his suburban San Diego high school, announced the district was cutting spending on supplies by nearly a third, Farber had a problem. At 3 cents a page, his tests would cost more than $500 a year. His copying budget: $316. But he wanted to give students enough practice for...
NEW BATTLESTAR TRAILER. →
GO. WATCH.
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Sci Fi greenlights 'Battlestar' prequel →
‘Sci Fi Channel has greenlit “Caprica,” the much-anticipated prequel to hit series “Battlestar Galactica.”
“Caprica” will star Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Paula Malcomson andPolly Walker, and will be set 50 years prior to “Galactica’s” seminal attack on human civilization by those dreaded ‘droids the Cylons. Family-drama-themed...