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Writers Strike Eisner - Media US News Story - CNBC.com
“Its over,” Eisner said. “They made the deal, they shook hands on the deal. Its going on Saturday to the writers in general.”

We should see the earliest affects on the late night shows, as well as “the Daily Show” and “Colbert Report.” And with any luck We’ll see a summer season of scripted TV.

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Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.

Evan Esar, Esar’s Comic Dictionary
American Humorist (1899 - 1995)

The saying “Getting there is half the fun” became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

Henry J. Tillman

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

Kurt Vonnegut, “Cold Turkey”, In These Times, May 10, 2004
US novelist (1922 - 2007)

… I don’t even have HBO. But I used and I did watch it when I did. So I was kinda interested in how The series ended up. I was talking with colleague about the show and he informed me that Tony whacked Christopher “So I had my What ?! Christopher’s Dead” moment about a week ago. Now I doubt ANYONE, with the exception of maybe Helen Keller could have escaped the news how the Series ended on Sunday Night. Even then I think that dang Miracle Worker lady would have spilled the beans to her too. Anyway, being that I didn’t see it I really can’t, and therefore won’t comment on how it ended. But Ron Moore, head writer and one of the executive producers of the GREATEST SHOW EVER TO BE ON TV, “Battlestar Galactica” liked it:

It’s poetic. It’s exciting. It’s perfect.

And most of all, I wish I’d thought of it first.

Don’t Even think about it Ron!!!! BSG’s got one more season, and in this season I want ANSWERS. They don’t have to be neat, but sure as HECK they better be plausible. Starting with What The !@#$ is the Cylon plan. Man! I sometimes wonder if they even know. But to tell you the truth it should not even start there. Before you even start with the battle that we left the ragtag fleet in at the cliff Hanger, OR with how Starbuck can STILL be alive, you need to tell 4 back stories. You HAVE to explain to me Torie, Anders, Tyrol and Tigh are Cylons, and it better make sense.

Wow, I’m pretty worked up about this. whew … I watch TOO much TV.

NOW THAT’S how a season should end !!!! Granted through out the season, Lost sure can drag sometimes and makes you wonder “What the HECK are they doing?” But last night’s season finale REALLLLLLLYYY paid off.

Don’t want to spoil anything but if you saw last night then you know, that eventually they DO get rescued. And that they ARE on an actual island and not hell or purgatory, some fantasy sequence or a simulation in someones head.

Observations:

• Charley really “maned up”
• Mikhail is one resilient sonovagun isn’t he?
• The return of Hurley’s van was classic. (I think I literary cheered.)
• I really Like Locke as a character but, but I would put a piece of lead in his balding dome by now.

Any theories on who’s in the casket?

Fair warning: This post does have spoilers. scroll down to continue:

Was I the only one who was a little disappointed buy last night season finale of Heroes? Granted, they a do a better job of paying off the mysteries and tell you whats going on than say Lost, but what I wanted to see was a REAL battle between Peter and Sylar. But noooooo. For the 3rd time in a row Pete gets his glutinous maximus handed to him like he ordered it for breakfast. They are both proficient in TK, but Peter can fly, hear thoughts, turn invisible, and heal from just about ANY wound. He ought to be able to take him. I know it was Hiro’s destiny to take out Sylar but does he have to go out like a punk? And what kind of solution was that for the bomb? Why did both Peter AND Nathan have to fly away and explode. HELLO ?????? They both can fly. Why does Nate have to sacrifice himself? And Lastly. Sylar is NOT dead ??? What is keep him from just playing dead and then blow up anyway?

Its still a great show and I will watch next season, but they are gonna have to think this stuff through a little more.

I won’t even talk about the 30 minute “Samari for Dummies” course Hiro got from his dad last week.

RTÉ.ie Entertainment: Ryan set for US stardom as Bionic Woman
Former ‘EastEnders’ star Michelle Ryan is to get her own series on US primetime TV.

TV giant NBC has given the green light for a full series of the Ryan-starring ‘The Bionic Woman’, a remake of the 1970s show.

The principle creative talent for this show is David Eicke, who along with Ron Moore, is responsible for The Battlestar Galactica, the best show on TV EVER. Check Bionic Woman preview:

Ben Browder and Claudia Black were the stars of the 2nd best TV Show every to be broadcasted : Farscape(The First being the new Battlestar: Galactica). It aired for a FAR TO SHORT four seasons several years ago on the Sci-Fi channel. Alas even though it had a great and devoted following, Sci-Fi saw fit to cancel it. But hope sprang a new as these two found homes on a new sci-fi channel series Stargate : SG-1, but yet again the fates where not so kind:

SCI FI Wire | The News Service of the SCI FI Channel
SCI FI Channel confirmed that it will not renew its record-breaking original series Stargate SG-1 for another season, but will pick up its spinoff series Stargate Atlantis for a fourth year. SG-1 aired its 200th episode on Aug. 18, and the SF series is the longest-running SF show on American television.

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Blade the Series premiered last night on Spike. Here’s a trailer Last nights ep can be downloaded from itunes for a free until 7/11.

BetaNews | BitTorrent Signs Deal With Warner Bros.
BitTorrent said Tuesday that it had struck a content deal with Warner Bros. Entertainment to use the network to distribute movies and television shows. It is believed to be the first of its kind between a file-sharing company and the entertainment industry.

The service would begin this summer, say BitTorrent executives. Television shows could sell for as litlle as $1, half the price of iTunes video downloads. The company’s technology has sparked the interest of Hollywood as a easy way to distribute digital content, said BitTorrent president Ashwin Navin.

They are the first BIG media company to imbrace P2P as a way to distribute large content. iTunes is prolly OK for your PC but the quality is not good enough play on your TV, assuming you can find a way to get it to you TV in the first place. A Broadcast/DVD (not to mention HD) show or movie, would kill a traditional client-server delivery system.

AOL(link) said Tuesday it will be laying off 1,300 workers in response to the changing needs of its business. Most of the affected employees are in the company’s customer support facilities, and its Jacksonville, Fla., call center would be shut down completely. According to an AOL(link) spokesperson, calls to its help lines have fallen by about 50 percent. The service says the drop in support requests has a lot to do with the increasing sophistication of its users.

While this is bad news for it’s employees. Time Warner finally realize that the value of AOL(link) has always been its content, and Instant Messaging. Now that high value content can be gotten anywhere without having to deal with and with AOL(link), AIM(link) has taken off as a free servers on its own, why pay for the high prices? The security angle I think is good though, but they should have contracted with McAfee or Symantec (Don’t know how their security features stack up with the big boys) but I would get AOL(link) High-Speed if it meant I get free security upgrades of am major security provider.

Just saw the premier of the Boondocks Animated series. The reviews I heard where mixed. I take reviews with a grain of salt. USUALLY people who do reviews are hardly ever the intended audience. Me being a HUGE fan of the strip am willing to give the show a HUGE benefit of the doubt.

I thought it was pretty good. Their where some pretty funny parts. John Witherspoon is the OBVIOUS choice for granddad but Regina King playing Huey and Riley is going to take getting used. her pitch is just too daggon high. She sounds like a south park character. They also sound to much alike to be two different people. Lastly she really needs to work on her comedic timing. I could tell where I was supposed to laugh but I wasn’t always compelled to do so.

There where still funny moments. But they where mostly situational. Not really the cleverly delivered lines that I would expect from a a comic with so much social commentary. They should high hire some joke writers.

Highlights:
“Bet You wish you had your rain coat right now.”
“Don’t trust them new niggas over there.”

While the show wasn’t AS funny as I was expecting, (I had high hopes) the show did get a chance to get some social commentary in:

1. Rich white people have a different level of threat than the rest of us. Even if they found that the Reagan was the devil it wouldn’t faze them much. After all. no matter what they are still rich.
2. “He’s so articulate” Chis Rock has a joke about this. He was talking about Colin Powell. He would say that people LOVED Powell but and he would say that the only thing white people had to say about him is that “he’s so articulate.” The point of the joke was that Colin Powell was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs at the time. Of course he knows how to speak. Chris and Eric are making the same point, that white people are so amazed that black people can speak that they are not listening to what we say.
3. “In thirty years that boy will be President. and he’ll still be “I wonder if Bush Sr. knew with such certainty the destiny of Bush Junior after he dodged combat duty.