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Monthly Archives: November 2008

Watch the Old Cupid

Quick! Before they take it down.
Someone has uploaded the original Cupid series to YouTube.  Cupid was created by Rob Thomas and starred Jeremy Piven.  There are 15 episodes on YouTube.  Catch ‘em before they disappear.

In other Cupid news, according to Alan Sepinwall, the new version of Cupid will be a collaboration between Thomas and Veronica […]

M.I.T. Takes on the Future of Storytelling

According to a New York Times story the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory is planning to study the future of storytelling.  The initiative is funded by David Kirkpatrick, who used to be president of the Paramount Pictures motion picture group and more recently started Plymouth Rock Studios, a future film production center in […]

Milch, Deadwood, Endings

TV Eye’s Roger Catlin got an advance look at the 19-disc, 36 hour “Deadwood: The Complete Series” that I want for Christmas (hint, hint).  One of the special features has David Milch on the abandoned Deadwood set talking about how he would have ended the series had he had his way.
Endings that supposedly “fixes the […]

Super Powers


Pam’s Next House

Image via WikipediaEarlier this year, I interviewed Pam Davis, a writer for House, at the Canadian Film Centre.  I just got an email from Pam announcing that one of her episodes — this one co-written with “my cohort Leonard Dick” — will air Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 8 p.m.I’ll be at the Canadian New […]

KDD, Kriminaldauerdienst

KDD, Kriminaldauerdienst is a German crime series discussed in the comments for the two previous posts.  Unfortunately, no one’s been able to find a sub-titled version that we can watch.  By would should that stop us?  Here’s a clip from YouTube that needs no words.

I’m Saved, Thank You

Thank you all for coming through on the viewing suggestions.  I now have a huge list of shows to watch.
Four of you waxed poetic about the third season of Friday Night Lights, so I immediately set to work.  I’m four episodes in now and happy to be back with the characters I love.  New storylines […]

Help Me, Please

Could someone please suggest some shows worth watching?
Mad Men is over for the season.  Entourage is about to end.  Even True Blood, about which I have mixed feelings at best, is going to end in the not too distant future.
I watch Heroes… but only out of desperation.  I heave pained sighs throughout.  I tried the […]

Hating and Loving True Blood

I watched True Blood again last night.  But I’m still not sure if I like it. 
I watch it every week.  In fact, it’s the first show I watch of my Sunday night choices.  But I’m always puzzled when I do, because there’s a lot I don’t like about it.
My big epiphany last night was […]