The Daily Loper – May 12, 2008
Posted by Lopy in The Daily Loper on May 12, 2008
Ring Ring, It’s 7:00 AM Edition
Todays links of interest:
- In the Age of TiVo and Web Video, What Is Prime Time?
As asked and answered by your friendly ‘lopers for quite some time. - Person close to talks: NBC installing Fallon on ‘Late Night’
Guessing that this might matter to someone: when Jay Leno finally gives up the Tonight Show and Conan O’Brien becomes the new Jay Leno (yeah, that really does sound like a nightmare), then Jimmy Fallon will become the new Conan O’Brien (ditto). - Lynda Barry, a Cartoonist Still Drawing On Her Creative Life
If we all chip in, we can send Kirk to Lynda Barry summer school. - Indiana Jones and the Long Knives of the Internet
Ah, there’s a Spielberg plot: fighting to keep advance word about a film from being spread by online reviewers. - You?ve Seen the YouTube Video; Now Try the Documentary
Cool. - How Bill O’Reilly Was Discovered
Once a dickhead, always a dickhead. - Bebo set to end KateModern online drama next month
The web-based series shows there’s life beyond traditional production methods.
“Honestly, if I could wish away the DVR, I would,†Mr. Wurtzel added. “But I can’t. It’s growing.â€
And yet we still have execs saying idiotic things like this. It may just mean you must get more creative in your job. Why wish away the most perfect technology ever devised for TV viewers?! Nothing like flaunting your ignorance in the NY Times.