The 10 Most Popular TVWriter™ Posts of 2013

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Have TV Networks Come Up With an Answer to DVRs?

Once upon a time, time-shifting (that’s using a DVR for most of us) was looked upon as a savior because it was a way to keep audiences watching TV. Now, however, it’s a big problem because people watch without looking at commercials and the time-shifting thing makes it harder for networks to measure audience size and therefore convince ad buyers that their prices are right.

In other words, the only ones benefitting from the existence and use of DVRs are the viewers. And we can’t have that, can we? What to do? What to do?

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Post DEADWOOD Modernism in Contemporary TV

Hey, that sounds pretty intellectual, huh? Just our way of honor this pretty damn intellectual article. We think we’d agree with it too…if we were sure of what it says:

It’s Deadwood‘s World. BossCopper, and Hell on Wheels Are Just Living In It – by Matt Zoller Seitz read article