Spaced Makes it to North America on DVD

Now this, I’m excited about.  I did a piece on the NTSC DVD release of Spaced for Telewatcher, and now I’m going to go out and see about finding a box.  (And, if you click through and read it, I really did discover the show because I met some people from England who had literally [...]

Do the Suits Know Best After All?

I just did a piece for Cinemaroll on an experience I had showing Firefly to friends who hadn’t seen it, and talking about how the studio had destroyed the show by meddling with it.  What happened next surprised me.
Studio “suits” have a horrible reputation for meddling in movies and TV shows and ruining them. Firefly [...]

Family Guy Becomes Media Empire

We already knew that Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane is a very funny guy. He’s also about to be a very, very rich guy. MacFarlane has signed a deal with 20th Century Fox TV that runs through 2012.

A specific dollar figure hasn’t been mentioned, but these things usually depend on performance anyway, so [...]