Television, it seems, is far from a mere brainsucker. Apparently, it prevents you from sucking other things. Which, of course, really sucks.
Category / Television
Too Bad Sheckley Didn’t Live to See This
Variety: “A designated operative — the ‘runner’ — has to elude capture by average folks as he or she travels across the country. Game will take place in both the real world and online, with audience members competing to snag a cash bounty by ‘capturing’ the runner. Grand prize is expected to be several million dollars, a value that exceeds the sum offered up by most TV reality shows. Other, smaller prizes could be offered throughout the event.”
All that’s missing here are the guns and the homicidal maniacs.
Can Actors Get Fired for Blogging on the Clock?
From a Rainn Wilson interview: “Yeah, we have working computers on the set, though the internet connection can be really bad. A lot of times, if we’re just doing background work, if they’re shooting a scene with Steve Carell [in the foreground], we have time to play around with [our web sites]. I’ll try to think of something from an upcoming episode, or just keep track of funny observations that I write as Dwight. Yeah. It’s a virtual reality set, people are working on their Web sites all the time. Everyone has their MySpace thing going.”
The Dwight blog is here.
Television is Unprofitable
Useful Equations for “Lost” Watchers
TiVo + BitTorrent = TVTAD. (And if you’re an open source geek, there’s this alternative.)