Tuesday, October 28, 2008
I don’t get this adveristing campaign from Capital One. Am I supposed to consider an assault of airborne office supplies, destroying much property along the way, a positive thing?
Image from Post Magazine
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
My assumption from watching it is that every IKEA kitchen layout is endowed with a specter who will comment in syncopated verse about the existential threat of children stealing chocolate.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
An excellent interlude in the second act graced this week’s episode of Everybody Hates Chris (CW Fridays 8:00 EST).
The ‘A’ storyline of this week’s show was Chris going with a girl named Jenise Huxtable to the homecoming dance. The second act opens with Chris coming to pick up Jenise at her house, which lo [...]
Last week, New York Magazine ran a feature article on the subject of product integration in scripted television. The author, Emily Nussbaum, discussed the growing trend and the way it pushes showrunners to plug products within the context of scripted television. Nussbaum makes 30 Rock the center of her discussion and uses Tina [...]
Saturday, October 11, 2008
From time to time, Emily and I will be looking at television from Britain. Before we kick it off, some general notes:
American readers will undoubtedly know some of the approximately 4500 British television shows that have been translated for these shores. This season we have 4 programs on major networks on Thursday nights [...]