Results tagged “zoe”

Tonight brings the highly anticipated (US) series premiere of "Life on Mars" on ABC. Is it just another gussied up time-traveler premised police procedural or does it have more substance? The Brits loved their version, let's see if the US one has legs. What it does have is Harvey Keitel in a supporting role on TV.

Yes we know that the stock market is crashing but what about that other local industry, the one with actors, and directors, and TV, and movies and stuff. Remember back at the end of June that the Screen Actors Guild didn't ratify the offer from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers? This means that business in Hollywood is going forward without a current contract between actors and producers which evidently isn't sitting well with SAG, who yesterday urged producers to come back to the table. The Hollywood Reporter states that AMPTP rejected the overture but business is moving ahead as usual - bad TV and movies must continue to be made.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Netflix has struck a deal with CBS and Disney to distribute their content over the internet after their original air date. Do they really think that Netflix will do a better job at this than Hulu? C'mon, why can't we centralize the content a bit more instead of forcing us to deal with your different delivery methods and interfaces.

The Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB) will finally offer video clips! The Amazon-owned site will be providing legally licensed clips from the likes of Sony, CBS, etc. It's about time. TechCruch gives the low-down.

NBC networks will have ad placement from Google the Wall Street Journal reports. The deal will start on an experimental basis and will probably focus on local markets. The same online interface that gives Google AdWords advertisers to local print and radio media will now accommodate TV advertising. There's been a lot of resistance to allowing this access to Google so other networks will be watching this closely. The fear is that the auction system will actually cut advertising revenues and devalue the platform but it would be hard to devalue the platform much more than it has been with some of the terrible programming on it.