The Guild

I’ve been enjoying this MMO-players-meet-in-real-life comedy series for a while, but after I heard writer/star Felicia Day and cast member Sandeep Parikh in an interview on The Instance this week, I love it even more.  It’s hilariously funny if you play an MMORPG, and still very amusing if you don’t.  They have 7 episodes out so far, and each one is great.

Awesome side note - Parikh is the writer and producer of The Legend of Neil, which has aparantly been picked up as a web series by Comedy Central.  I really can’t wait for more episodes of that.

Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Preview

Contains season 3 spoilers

This 5 min. preview makes me drool for the final season to start, which I hear is sometime in April.  My guess?  They’re all cylons.  (via Cow Bell Tech (thanks Adam))

PS - Who knew Lee was British?

Screenrant.com attempts to explain why seemingly beloved SciFi shows receive poor ratings and often end up prematurely canceled.  His attempt to fix the indisputably broken Nielsen rating system is admirable, but probably insufficient.  As more people  watch TV through “smart” set top boxes, you have to wonder when the networks will get their heads out of their asses and simply monitor viewership directly.  There is a lot of money sitting around waiting for the first cable/satelite/IPTV company who can deliver actual viewer statistics instead of misleading extrapolations.

Mark my words - The future of television advertising is targeted contextual ads.  Smart content providers will start selling ads the same way Google does.  Shows like Journeyman and Firefly will not be so redily canceled when studios realize that, thought these shows attract fewer eyeballs, these eyeballs are more valuable.

Battlestar Galactica Last Supper

An interesting take on the not-so-subtle religious undertones of the show.  My only question is, why isn’t Six doing the big arms thing?  My only other question is, when the hell are we getting new episodes?  (via Digg)

A Charlie Brown Christmas… Scrubs style
An oldie but a goodie.  Just felt like getting in the X-mas spirit.  You know, without having to go to the mall.

Futurama Lives!

No, not as an anime series (though that would be cool) but as a series of four full-length, direct-to-DVD movies. The movies will feature all of the original voice cast, and will eventually be split up into 30 min. episodes to be shown on Comedy Central. The first movie - Bender’s Big Score - is set for a Nov 27 release.

This really annoys me. (via Digg)

NOOOOOO!!!!!!