Prepping for the return of Heroes July 24, 2008
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In addition to reading all the Heroes graphic novels this summer, I’m also listening to last.fm to see how often Hayen Panettiere comes up in My Neighbourhood Station. (Check out those related artists, and feel free to leave embarrassing comments)
And for the people who will undoubtedly arrive here from Google image search, last.fm has a fairly decent collection of Hayden Panattiere pictures.
Finally, for those who don’t know, Heroes is back on September 22nd with a 2 hour premiere. I could have sworn at one point they said it was going to be a 3 hour premiere (I assumed this was to make up for the writers’ strike-shortened Season 2). Chuck returns September 29th.
Diamond Age Miniseries May 2, 2008
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The money quote from boing boing (hat tip: Chris Rettstatt:
Neal Stephenson’s Hugo-award winning masterpiece The Diamond Age is being made into a SciFi Channel miniseries.
Also interesting - and exciting - that it’s being produced by George Clooney:
Diamond Age, based on Neal Stephenson’s best-selling novel The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, is a six-hour miniseries from Clooney and fellow executive producer Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Productions.
And Chris Rettstatt says:
Update: I just read that Neal Stephenson is writing the screenplay, which gives me hope.
I’m not sure how it could get much better. Is Joss Whedon is looking for something to direct right now?
Perhaps it was because I read Snow Crash when it came out, and I just read Diamond Age last year, but I sometimes feel like I liked Diamond Age
Scarlet TV Series Revealed April 23, 2008
Posted by fanaticalpupil in : Marketing, TV , add a commentIt’s a TV.
According to this Yahoo Answers post (which I’m quoting because they always seem to take down the answers):
I found the below info on youtube as I toooooo have been searching for days for this show.
“There is no Scarlet television show, and it is not a viral campaign for the Scarlet camera.
It is a viral marketting campaign for the LG Scarlet (previously called Scarlett, and already on sale in Korea) series of televisions.
When they say “hit TV series”, they mean it literally. It’s been a very good selling series of TVs there”
Thank you Bunny73.
That does explain why the commercials have been seen on more than one channel. And yes, you can see the TV in at least one of the YouTube videos. I applaud LG for their creativity, but really, how many people are going to buy this TV who otherwise would not have? And how many people are going to be so upset at the hoax that they don’t buy the TV or any other LG products?
Oh, and Rosebud was the sled.
Scarlet TV Series April 18, 2008
Posted by fanaticalpupil in : TV , add a commentHow is it that the only information I can find on this is actually on the show’s website? That just doesn’t seem normal.
I mean, part of me is saying it’s a fairly transparent experiment with “non-marketing.” I.e., seeing how many people will watch the (alleged) mini-series without promoting outside of 30 second ads (on ABC, I think). The web site doesn’t even say what channel it’s on, so I was tempted to think that it might be a web-only thing, but the address definitely ends in “.tv”. Of course, with the apparent active obfuscation of evidence of the existence of the show, it could be that the .tv is just another red herring, and perhaps it really is going to be a web-only show.
The other part (I guess you’d call it a half, then) of me thinks that David Nutter has had enough of “normal” TV shows after launching Millennium, Roswell, Dark Angel, Smallville, Without a Trace, Supernatural, and The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I guess we’ll just have to do as he says in the clearly staged interview on the site and “watch closely.”