April 2008 Archive
April 30: Matt Damon won't do Bourne game, says too violent -- Matt Damon backed out of a the Bourne Conspiracy game due to -- get this -- too much violence. Matt Damon's mom approves of this message.
April 29: In Brief -- 24 webisodes work well; WGA strike has lasting impact, Bear Grylls is a wimp, Still on Tropic Thunder, more of my reading list..
April 29: Jack Thompson harasses Take2 exec's mom -- Jack Thompson personally harasses a Take2 exec's mother.
April 29: Wil Wheaton on moralist game rage -- Wil Wheaton and Keith Boesky share their thoughts on GTA IV and violent video games and the obsessively violent reactions then engender.
April 29: Hans Reiser found guilty -- Linux file system programmer Rans Resier found guilty of murdering a woman that hasn't even been shown to be dead.
April 28: New House, Bones tonight -- New House and Bones on tonight, April 28th.
April 28: Scifi Channel creates SGA-themed Tuesday block -- The Scifi Channel will begin airing a 3-hour block of Stargate Atlantis reruns on Tuesday nights, beginning April 29th.
April 28: Damn those disturbingly hot 15-year-olds -- Scandal or sick celebrity obsession by the media? Miley Cyrus photo in Vanity Fair stirs moral outrage; world doesn't end.
April 27: Media Pundit gets a face lift -- The Media Pundit gets a face life.
April 26: Weekend bits -- Heroes return date; David Mamet does a dark drama; GTA IV got pirated nearly a week early; more...
April 25: Not so fast -- For what it's worth, DVRs still beat streaming online hands down.
April 24: Barry Sonnenfeld: "The Internet will destroy democracy" -- Barry Sonnenfeld thinks the Internet will destroy privacy and democracy, and that to save us from the Bush administration, we must put down our computers. Right now. Seriously.
April 23: Terminator spin-off lives into the fall -- The Sarah Connor Chronicles gets a second season, but does it deserve it? Not really.
April 22: In Brief -- Viacom starts own pay-cable channel; NBC blurs the line between entertainment and paid programming; Lohan falls off the wagon, more..
April 21: Somebody forgot to bring the funny -- A parody letter of the WGA strike and the fi-core "outing" is making the rounds.
April 21: Great things coming out of Six Apart -- Six Apart buys an ad network and releases a fantastic Facebook application. How few years will WordPress have left at this rate?
April 20: Amazon solved YouTube's problem 2 years ago -- Google's "YouTube problem" has a solution, one that Amazon invented over two years ago that has been sitting mostly idle ever since.
April 18: WGA outs fi-core writers -- The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has published a list of writers that went fi-core during the 2007-2008 writers strike.
April 17: Oprah made 10x more than Alex Rodriguez did last year -- A list you deplore but can't stop looking at: the richest celebs in 2007.
April 16: GTA IV spawns more hype over games vs. movies -- Just like last year, the next big game release has spurred the media to declare that games are finally as big -- if not bigger -- than movies are. Bulls**t.
April 15: In Brief -- AFTRA and SAG fight; Ron Moore gets a new series on FOX; Speilberg wants to do 'Ghost in the Shell'; more...
April 14: Report: most piracy within 12-18 hours -- Report says most piracy peaks within 12-18 hours after TV broadcast.
April 14: Current challenges to HD movie downloads: ..what HD? -- Most writers struggle to understand that what Apple and other streaming vendors call "high definition" video is anything but.
April 13: Money, baby. -- Most successful shows go off the air because their costs inevitably exceed revenue.
April 12: "Fair market value" bill advances in CA Senate -- Bill that would force studios to sell programming at "fair market value" to networks owned by the same parent advances in CA Senate.
April 12: Culture has nothing to do with it -- Addressing misconceptions about how and why veteran TV shows fail -- put simply they don't.
April 11: We get signal -- Stargate Continuum is available for pre-order on Amazon; Lost season finale upgraded to two-hours; Jericho may not be dead yet.
April 10: Uwe Boll thinks Michael Bay is a retard -- Uwe Boll says will stop making movies if a petition reaches 1,000,000 signatures -- calls Michael Bay a retard.
April 09: Jeff Zucker says a SAG strike will end Hollywood -- Jeff Zucker is telling advertisers that Hollywood will end if SAG strikes, nuking television while films will magically survive unscathed.
April 08: SAG strike won't kill our Heroes -- SyFy Portal starts a rumor that a SAG strike could kill off Heroes. The article itself has very little in the way of evidence to back up its imaginative claims.
April 08: Clooney goes fi-scab -- George Clooney has gone fi-core in protest of losing credit arbitration over rewriting the screenplay for Leatherheads. The man is now officially a pathetic scab.
April 07: FCC and Justice Department declare war on Fox -- The FCC and Department of Justice have declared war on Fox over indecency on television. How far will these persecutions go?
April 07: Stephen King has the right idea -- Stephen King reflects on video game censorship laws in his home state, and I throw in my two cents.
April 06: Hulu is not the future of television -- Slate's Michael Agge asks if Hulu and streaming video will replace TV, but most people don't understand what that really means. Plus a free Battlestar Galactica video, cause I'm just that awesome.
April 06: There's too much frakking going on -- Battlestar Galactica's big problem: too much frakking going on.
April 04: What the frak are you watching tonight? -- Battlestar Galactica returns for its final season today; links to sites talking about the BSGs legacy and a handful of interviews with cast and crew.
April 03: NBC sets 2008 year-around schedule -- NBC is the first to try a year-around development schedule; announces which shows will go where for all of 2008.
April 02: Fanboys will be fanboys -- Fanboys -- a comedy by The Weinstein Company -- has pissed off real life fanboys who have urged a boycott of the film.
April 02: SAG and AFTRA get a divorce -- SAG and AFTRA get a divorce, while SAG sets a date for talks with the studios. Will they strike, or make a deal?
April 01: Reflecting on Battlestar Galactica's journey -- One of the better shows on television (when it's actually on) is coming to an end this year. The fourth and final season of Battlestar Galactica will premier this Friday at 10PM, at least temporarily taking up the regular time slot of Stargate Atlantis. It'll repeat again at midnight and you can even catch the premier early on the Scifi channel website from noon until 1pm that day.All that's good and stuff, but does anyone actually remember where BSG left off? It's been a while since the last episode aired and that's one of my chief complaints -- not with the show itself, but how the cable network has handled its production and broadcast schedule. I can't remember the last...