Box Office Weekly #125 (MP3 - 15 MB - 22 min)
In today’s show, Weekend Box Office Figures, TV Ratings and these stories:  instead of choosing between satellite radio providers, you can go back to choosing between radio or an iPod… geeks have the ear of the studios… and in this week’s commentary I marvel at [...]

 

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So this morning before I went to work, I upgraded the software on my TV. There is a USB thumb drive slot in the side, next to the camcorder inputs. I thought maybe the upgrade will fix a problem that recently developed on my computer. I’ve been using my televsion as a second monitor, and [...]

Box Office Weekly #124 (MP3 - 17 MB - 23 min)
In today’s show, Weekend Box Office Figures, TV Ratings and these stories: the big studios tailor a new strategy for Singapore… If you bought IMAX stock in the eighties, it might be about to pay off… and in this week’s commentary I geek out in [...]

 

 BOx Office Weekly #124 [23:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Checking out the previews currently up online it quickly becomes apparent that the motion picture industry is doomed, trapped in ever-repeating cycles of done-it-before mediocrity. OR… Then again, there are also some surprising signs of life, in particular marriages of technology and vision which indicate the creative spark has not entirely gone out in Hollywood.
Evidence [...]

I spent this weekend catching up on Doctor Who episodes. I’m a whole season ahead of Americans, who are getting theirs off BBC America - I’m getting mine straight from the BBC, thanks to a certain underground element that shall remain nameless.  In Series 4 (as the brits like to call ‘em) The Doctor (David [...]

Courtesy HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.
Outstanding Drama Series
Boston Legal
Damages
Dexter
House
Lost
Mad Men
Outstanding Comedy Series
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Entourage
The Office
30 Rock
Two and a Half Men
Outstanding Miniseries
The Andromeda Strain — A+E
Cranford (Masterpiece Theatre) — PBS
John Adams — HBO
Tin Man — Sci Fi Channel
Outstanding Made for Television Movie
Bernard and Doris — HBO
Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale — HBO
The Memory [...]

Box Office Weekly #123 (MP3 - 17 MB - 24 min)
In today’s show, Weekend Box Office Figures, TV Ratings and these stories: New Media makes friends with Dirty Dancing… Reality TV gets closer than ever to killing someone… and in this week’s commentary I offer a helpful example of the life of a spec script. [...]

 

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Writing “on spec” means writing with the hope that someone will buy it, as opposed to writing “on assignment” where someone has already given you money and is forcing you to write what they want. Most spec scripts never make it past the the outer-office receptionist, but once in a while one gets on the [...]

Remember those old movies about the music industry which portrayed it as being controlled by cold, powerful executives who tallied the rise and fall of talent with prescient, God-like powers? “Kid, you got something,” they’d say to the young, talented protagonist. “Stick with me, and we’re gonna go all the way to the top.” And, [...]

If you’re near the Agoura Hills area of Los Angeles, there are only three more chances this weekend to catch me in NO SEX PLEASE WE’RE BRITISH, and most likely two of them are sold out. Friday only! Come to the Stage Door Theatre (818) 889-5209, enjoy free white wine and side-splittin’ comedy as only [...]