Good to see that the Les(s) Man is finally facing reality:
USA Today reports that Les(s) Moonves, Chairman of CBS Corp – which means he controls CBS, Showtime and half the CW – now claims to have been waiting, waiting, waiting for the glorious moment when alternate programming like DVR viewing, online streaming, mobile viewing, etc. to dominate the television world…and now that time has come.
Idris is back!
Word is that a new 4-episode series/season of LUTHER will be on the air on BBC sometime during the third quarter of 2013, to be followed soonish (that usually means three or four months later) in the U.S. on BBC America.
Here’s the official announcement about one of the best-written (and best-performed) cop shows evah:
Ah, I love the smell of vindication in the morning!
Study: Online Video Viewers Start Leaving After Waiting Two Seconds – by David Murphy
One of the more frustrating things that can happen to your average Web surfer is the dreaded, “Why is my video not playing” error. Whether YouTube’s having a hiccup, your connection’s fizzling out, your browser’s taking a nap or some other perfect storm of problems is preventing you from watching two minutes of a cute kitty cat do its cute kitty cat thing, the end result is the same: No video.
You have a few choices when this happens. You can wait it out. You can hit refresh and hope that the problem goes away. Or, if you’re like most people, you can get hacked off and close the Web page.
A big TVWriter™ “Yess!” to iconoclasts:
by Charlotte Rains Dixon
I’m tired of people telling me what to do.
I’m tired of people telling me how to eat. (Don’t eat dairy! No grains! No eggs! And puh-leeze, no sugar!)
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