The Loquacious Limey

In news that’s a positive joy to report, it seems PBS has decided to show the rest of TV how it should be done. This glorious channel, currently celebrating its fortieth year, has decided to join Hulu and YouTube and offer its content online.
Their new video hub allows both regular viewers and those not currently [...]

If you read the LA Times today you may have noticed the NAACP is demanding that the Entertainment industry immediately redress what the Association regards as an unacceptable racial imbalance in the casting of TV and movies; The article goes on to explain there could be severe and undisclosed penalties, which a spokesman said would [...]

Politics is boring. American politics doubly so, as not being a Citizen means it’s purely a spectator sport. And one that, in this case has gone so far into extra innings someone should repay us with jail time at least.
But it seems even this endless snore-fest may boast a silver interior – If the Elephant [...]

In yet another endeavor to cement its position as the television network for those who think cardigans are cutting-edge fashion, CBS has announced plans to add ‘mini-shows’ between their real shows.
I’m not sure what those in charge at ‘the Eye’ are inhaling to form an idea so creatively obtuse, but I want 10lbs of it…Now!
The [...]

NBC Direct, the “free” service from NBC that lets you download full episodes of shows like The Office, 30 Rock, Las Vegas, Biggest Loser and more, has opened on NBC’s main site.
Currently in that annoying cop-out known as “Beta,” and originally scheduled to open last month, the new video service lets you download NBC shows [...]

After yesterday’s malevolent demands by the AMPTP that every word a Writer may have even contemplated committing to paper belonged to them and must be surrendered immediately or incur a Fatwah, we reach another low-point in the course of any strike; The Opportunists.
The picket lines on the East Coast are rapidly becoming clogged and in [...]

This should be titled, “Mediation Won’t Work…So Let’s Try Fear”…
Members of the Western arm of the WGA whose unproduced scripts were shopped or bought by a Studio now have until tomorrow [Friday] to give those scripts to the Union for their ‘Script Validation’ program. This is an attempt to keep track of possible rogue writers, [...]

Well, it’s on. As of 12.01am PT today, WGA members downed tools and formed a picket line. This could be long, and will certainly be both costly and acrimonious. But the political camps are already seizing on the strike as a platform for their own campaigns; Sen. Barack Obama, [D-Ill.,] already declared his position and [...]