More importantly, we missed meeting his companion, Alisa:
Alisa and I will be attending the New York Comic Con this Saturday and Sunday. Conventions are cool! So many fun outfits.
(Alisa asks – anyone know of any Doctor Who or Tumblr meetups happening at the con?)
…And, just possibly, the other broadcast networks as well. But Dan Treadway definitely is kinda cool. (In the dweebie way the networks like NBC can never understand. But we know, don’t we? We know…)
NBC Is Stuck in a Century in Which Guys Taking Care of Kids Is a Hilarious Concept – by Dan Treadway (HuffingtonPost.Com)
I like to imagine the conversation in the NBC boardroom went something like this:
Johnson: Sir, we’ve been kicking around a few ideas to put our network’s comedy lineup back on the map since we’re completely abandoning the notion of providing fresh, original content in favor of copying the crap on CBS.
Yes, it’s true. Writers are geeks. (If we weren’t, wouldn’t we, um, maybe get laid now and then?) And this definitely is the trivia highlight of the TVWriter™ Gang O’Geeks so far this week:
Which Character Was Created Because Of Nintendo’s Inability To License Popeye? (How-To Geek)
…And puts women showrunners in the front lines so everybody knows the ladies are being exploited at the same time they’re being dissed getting a fair shake after all.
14 Women are in The Hollywood Reporter’s Top 50 Showrunners of 2012 – by Kerensa Cadenas (Hollywood Reporter)
The Hollywood Reporter recently named their Top 50 Showrunners of 2012 for both comedy and drama. 14 of the 50 showrunners named were women. And women made up 4 of the 11 on the Showrunners to Watch list. Despite the recent and continuing frustrating news regarding women in television, I’m hoping that the recentinflux of women-created television news continues to up these numbers.
Fairfax, one of Australia’s largest media companies, says it is.
And inasmuch as they’re Big Dogs in the country that gave us WILFRED, we’re all ears:
Show Doing Well on BitTorrent? We’ll Buy It, Says Media Giant – by Ernesto
Fairfax’s head of video Ricky Sutton has admitted that his company’s acquisition strategy is in large part based on what content is popular on BitTorrent. Not only is Fairfax using BitTorrent as a market research tool, the company also admits to advertising their content offerings directly on BitTorrent sites, in an attempt to convert pirates into paying customers.