Terrific post, Bill! While I've never been a 4channer myself (I lack the necessary creativity), I appreciate your positioning of them as safeguards of the Internet. While I'm sure 4channers would agree with that, they're consistently seen a ...
Between your post and Jeremy's, there's this weird sense of trying to parse out why shows are fitting for summer and why they're not (couldn't have organized you all better if I had tried). One thing that strikes me is that for all the ...
"The freedom from expectation" line is what grabs me. Clearly audiences have expectations that are still tied to network identities, based on the struggling ratings of broadcast's attempts to do scripted shows during the summer (at least AB ...
Kevin: many thanks for getting us off to a great start this week. I respond particularly to your idea about coastal Louisiana as bound up in its representation, and how we respond to it. Of course there's the actual news events, but now there's ...
Terrific piece, Charlotte. This is especially interesting since USA has avoided franchising itself (a la CBS) into a procedural network with various spin-offs, instead riffing on their "blue skies"/procedural formula/genre in stylish ways. As fo ...
I think Psych 's position is, as you point out, Myles, very unique due to the current trend within the USA genre/brand. Given that USA got a little handsy with In Plain Sight (to make it a little more blue skies, according to reports), I can see them ...
Hi Maggie, I can't help but wonder if the emphasis on Riley as opposed to (the shamelessly recast) Victoria is also a part of Summit's attempt to drive males into cinemas. The trailers on television have emphasized the battle between the wolves ...
Casey, Terrific ideas. Your last point about Star Trek and the like getting in the manga section is a really important one. Based on this perspective, I can't help but wonder if the price points function as a paratext for the individual publishers? ...
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Terrific start to the week
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