Zatz Not Funny, a general PVR blog with a Tivo bent, reports that CBS will stream every single game of this year’s March Madness tournament. You won’t even suffer from local blackouts. But what will the quality be like? Looks like I won’t have to spend anything on DirecTv’s March Madness pass. Not that I was going to.
Wouldn’t it be ironic if Memphis lost in the first round? Well, it’d be ironic, but I doubt it’ll happen.
DirecTV (to which I happily subscribe) will have an interactive, multi-screen presentation of the Masters this year. How providential that this is the same year in which I was afforded the opportunity to go hi-def, widescreen, plasma, and large. I may need to take a 4-day weekend.
After all, it’ll be the start of Tiger’s Grand Slam year.
I find the Writer’s strike fascinating, and not just because I wish I were one of them. Not necessarily striking and not making money (although some days it feels like that), but I find their motivations just, and the ramifications of their choice are already occurring and will soon be imminently noticeable. The irony is that as the new fall season was beginning, I had almost chosen to put our Netflix membership on hiatus, what with so many enjoyable shows to watch. Now that the strike seems to be for the long-haul, I’m upping our number of DVDs out. That makes me wonder, although I think I know the answer, do the writer’s get a piece of my $15/month for Netflix?
As for the prompting of this post, Damon Lindelof, co-writer of LOST, wrote an article about the strike for the New York Times. To him, it is about money, but it’s also about more than that. It’s about the future of television.
Via this article at TVSquad.com, The Daily Show is now free for anyone to view, starting with Jon Stewart’s first show in 1999.
Searchable by correspondent or topic, I plan to peruse Steve Carrell’s clips when time allows. I’m a late-comer to the party on The Daily Show, after just starting to record it earlier this year. However, as for Mr. Carrell, the wife and I have been fans since The Office got it’s own U.S. version.
Plus, the fact that Stephen Colbert is “running” for President is brilliant. Jonathan Swift would be proud.
Tunefind allows you to search by TV or Movie title or artist for songs recently featured on television shows or movies. I stumbled across it because I was looking for a song used in, yes, you guessed it, the opening episode of this year’s Friday Night Lights (Fridays at 8pm on NBC). The song, by the way, that I found within three seconds of finding Tunefind is Wilco’s Muzzle of Bees. I have no idea what the song it about, but I sure do love the sound.
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