Kathy Fuller returns with more about the good that can come from a bad TV show. Talk about an optimist!
by Kathy Fuller
Mistake #2: Don’t just stand there, do something!
Month: June 2012
munchman: Anyone Remember Bob Cringely?
What feels like centuries ago, the Robert X. Cringely byline went with a couple of books/films and many columns in an otherwise obscure IT weekly whose name we forget. Cringely was kind of famous, even though he wasn’t real and was “played” by several different writers, the best of whom spent much more time talking about Cringely’s supposed relationship with a hot young babe (fun!) than about IT (not fun).
Somewhere along the line there was an intellectual property war over the byline, and the winner has a sometimes interesting blog that we sometimes get something interesting out of. Case in point:
Why YouTube isn’t the future of TV
by Robert X. Cringely
In a few weeks I’ll be launching a YouTube channel where you’ll be able to see lots of shows readers have been asking about including Startup America and even that lost second season of NerdTV. YouTube, as the largest video streaming service anywhere, is the absolute best place for me. But YouTube isn’t the future of TV.
The Rapture Comes to HBO
No, silly, not that kind of rapture. We’re talking the Big One, not what the French refer to as the Little Death.
Damon Lindelof returns to TV to film the Rapture for HBO
by Meredith Woerner
Damon Lindelof is getting back to his television roots with Tom Perotta’s The Leftovers, a supremely wild novel about what happens to those left behind after the Rapture. The two are currently in talks to adapt this book for an HBO series.
It’s the Hulk! On the Toilet! What Else Do You Need?
Destined to be the biggest viral video of the century, if it isn’t already:
Huh? Oh, you want the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Tp6beYfqm18
munchman: The Kardashians Are Writing an S-F Novel
Kendall and Kylie Jenner Reveal Latest Project: They’re Writing a Book!
by Ken Baker and Natalie Finn
Kendall and Kylie Jenner could be penning the next Twilight.
The Keeping Up With the Kardashians stars have exclusively revealed to E! News that they are working on a novel together, aimed at the young-adult audience that can’t get enough of Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and the aforementioned pretty successful vampire series.