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Upfronts: TV Doing Just Dandy Without Viewers

Here’s a pleasant surprise if you work in the broadcast TV business: it turns out that the fact that no one watches your shows anymore is no impediment to running a successful business. It may even help. Mediaweek reports that, counter to expectations and despite a recession, advertisers are paying more this upfront season for [...]

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The Morning After: Rockets' Red Glare

So the thing I was skeptical about before watching Discovery’s When We Left Earth in HD was: why exactly would old film benefit from high definition? Grainy footage is grainy footage, right? But comparing it with the standard-def version I screened, there does seem to be a difference: HD can’t make blurry footage crisp, but [...]

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BSG Watch: Might as Well Jump

Roslin (Mary McDonnell) confronts life and death. / SCI FI Channel Photo: Carole Segal SPOILER ALERT: Spoilers for Friday’s Battlestar Galactica coming up after the “Jump!… Jump!… Jump!…”

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Jim McKay, 1921-2008

Sportscaster Jim McKay died over the weekend at age 86. I make no secret on this blog that I don’t watch a lot of sports, but for me, McKay—known for his versatile coverage of the Olympics and for being the voice of ABC’s Wide World of Sports—brings back for me the weekends as a kid [...]