This is the way to close a season. (Obligatory spoiler warning for Office watchers.) (via Rarely Likable)
Category / Television
Presumably, Starbuck’s a Regular at Moe’s
The Prisoner Redux
It seems that Christopher Eccleston, perhaps one of the best things about the Doctor Who revival (before his acrimonious exit), may be in line to play Number 6 in an upcoming revival of The Prisoner. The original series is, for my money, one of the finest series ever produced for television. It’s unknown whether Patrick McGoohan will have any involvement, but Eccleston’s intensity, I’m sure, will serve well. Let’s just hope the scripts and the execution are in the right place.
ABC Makes First Leap to Internet-Centric Television Content
Washington Post: “But offering free programming directly to the consumer over the Internet may threaten to cannibalize the existing television business, analysts said. Network affiliates, which have traditionally cut deals with programmers to distribute content in regional television markets, will have to find ways of hanging on to their local audiences….’This probably makes the trend toward online video irreversible,’ said Phil Leigh, an analyst with research firm Inside Digital Media Inc.”
Two Forms of Comics
YouTube: Harvey Pekar vs. David Letterman (August 31, 1988)