I don't know if anyone here is still watching the Showtime series, but I am (despite the difficulty they're having in airing the episodes), and thought the Season Three finale was the best of the season.
The reason I mention it is that, at one point, the head of the network (played by Chris Diamantopoulos) is off his meds and pitching the future of the net to its board. He goes off on a rant that is supposed to reflect his mental state, but which I think is actually brilliant and might not be a bad course of action for the broadcast networks. In short, there's no schedule; there are no "nights," there's no nothing recurring to depend on. Everything is live and just put on the air at any time, forcing viewers to watch live (and to connect with friends: "Tune in right now! You won't believe what they're doing!") Anything goes. He specifically mentions "What if the host of a cooking show is taken hostage by the villain of one of our cop shows? And then he's shot by a cop?" "An actor?" "No, a real cop!" "Really shooting him?" "Why not? There are plenty of actors who'll do it." Given that the only things that seem to be able to defeat time-shifting are sports and other live events, something like this may be the only course of the broadcast entities are going to survive. Just sayin'. --Dave Sikula <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0224565/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t16> -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
