Category: media

“Online video is on the rise globally and TV viewers are increasingly multitasking – perhaps searching the web or using social media – during their tube time, a new survey suggests.”

“Here’s a new twist: a project headed up by director Ron Howard that is crowdsourcing the inspiration.”

“For example beverages are placed as open cans or bottles with glasses containing the beverage alongside – that way they look like they are being consumed. The technology is capable of placing or replacing moving objects and even replacing products being handled by actors like mobile phones.”

“There are problems every step of the way as a matter of law and as a matter of technology.” The 1976 Copyright Act “treats these as reproductions, as copies, not as a single unitary material object” — like those old CDs — “that you’re moving from place to place.”

“Hell hath no fury like a hardcore fan scorned. Often, the most hardcore fans of all are the authors.”

Writer/director Sally Potter: “It’s always a good principle to reinvent and to be prepared to throw away the things that you cling to as being your identity.”

“You can find news [on BuzzFeed], really serious news by first-rate journalists, about subjects like lobbying scandals and killer drones. You can also find an enormous amount of stuff like ‘The 40 Greatest Dog GIFs of All Time.'”

“The fundamental problem of the movie seems to be that none of the many, many screenwriters assigned to the task could figure out how to translate the game into a filmable story.”

Lorne Michaels’ “office in Rockefeller Center is now the most critical perch at NBC, where Michaels towers as the last man standing at a last-place network.”

The sitcom developed a devoted cult following during its three seasons on Fox, which canceled the show in 2006. Now Netflix, in the wake of its successful experiment with original series programming (House of Cards), will release a fourth season of 15 new episodes on May 26.