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Can You Trust Social Media? How Marketers Are Rigging The System
Continuing on from my last post, I thought I’d point out an interesting article in Wired that talks about How Marketers Rig the Social Media Machine. It’s easy to understand why social media is the...
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Inception, Christopher Nolan and Leverage
So judging by the latest from Box Office Mojo a good chunk of you have gone to see Inception by now. Personally I loved it. But this isn’t going to be a love in for Inception, at least not directly....
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What Happened To Television’s Snarky Teen Girl?
If you were alive in the late ’90s, and watched copious amounts of TV, chances are you’ve seen Daria. A spin-off of Beavis and Butt-head, Daria had more in common with shows like My So-Called Life than...
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A Long Road Ahead: Critics Preview the 2010 TV Season
So the US networks are about to throw their promotional machine into overdrive flogging their upcoming premieres. Every year there’s usually one or two shows that start to generate a lot of early...
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Old Spice Guy Single Handedly Turns Around Company
There’s been a lot of skepticism about how much impact the Old Spice Guy’s viral video campaign would actually have in the real world. Naysayers would point to the fact that sales of Old Spice had been...
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Stargate: Universe Season Two Trailer
Not as excited for this show than Sons, but it definitely picked up as the season progressed. I’m curious to see where they take it when it comes back.
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Maybe We Should Just Give It Away: How the Free-to-Play Revolution is...
So, full disclosure, I’m a gamer. I think pretty much everyone in my generation is to a certain extent, it’s just a question of whether they play browser based games (Farmville, Mafia Wars, etc) or if...
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Jersey Shore
What have thou wrought? When Jersey Shore ended its winter run on an unexpected high note, making a fantastic turnaround from derogatory exploitation to stroke of entertainment genius, the imitations...
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Mad Men: Most Successful Show With the Least Amount of Advertising?
There was an interesting article in Advertising Age the other day. In it they take a look at the advertising revenue, or lack thereof, generated by Mad Men. Despite Mad Men‘s continued cultural...
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And We’re Back…Again…
So I buggered off for a month’s vacation. I’d planned on updating the old blog (as well as doing a whole bunch of other writing), but obviously that didn’t happen. Instead I got a lot of quality time...
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Still a Virgin? Call for help
On the cab ride back from the airport I noticed a couple of these billboards. I figured it was a crank, some assholes with too much money having some fun. Turns out I was right. Sort of. A nationwide...
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A Perfect Movie: The Hunt for Red October
We all have them. You’re mindlessly channel surfing, lazy, procrastinating, bored. And then you stumble across it. Could be an old movie, TV show, special, whatever. But whatever it is, somehow,...
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Fall TV Premiere Dates
For those of you wondering what’s starting when. New shows in bold. Tuesday, September 7 Sons of Anarchy – FX Wednesday, September 8 Hellcats – The CW Terriers – FX Thursday, September 9 Nikita – The...
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Mad Men: Working With the Pirates
It seems like we’ve turned a corner in TV’s ongoing quest to monetize the internet, and YouTube’s ongoing quest to monetize itself. Anyone who’s used YouTube in the last six months will have noticed...
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Are Crouching Tigers, Hidden Dragons Taking Over Hollywood?
We all know that China’s become a force to be reckoned with when it comes to global economics. And it’s not just in the arena of cheap manufacturing, the world widgets and wig-wams, that China’s making...
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Sons Of Anarchy Is Back And Bigger Than Ever
Season 3 of Sons of Anarchy premiered the other night, and it’s back with a bang. The third season premiere of Sons of Anarchy on Tuesday attracted 4.13 million viewers, making it the third...
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Bell Canada Buys Out CTV
What does this mean for Canadian creatives? Who the hell knows. But I’m going to go out on a limb and say that any projects at CTV are going to be stalled out for a while.
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It’s Not TV. Or Is It? HBO’s Declining Subscriber Numbers
For years HBO’s catch phrase “It’s Not TV. It’s HBO.” rang true. HBO was the channel of The Sopranos and The Wire. Rome and Carnivale. HBO would put shows on the air that no other broadcast network...
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Bored To Death: How Jonathan Ames Writes A TV Show
There was a cute little puff piece about how Jonathan Ames, creator of HBO’s Bored to Death goes about writing his show. There’s nothing earth shattering craft-wise, but it’s a funny look at one...
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