Posts by Geoff Lealand
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Well pleased to find out that Matthew Weiner, the creator/exec producer of Mad Men , is a keynote speaker at the SPADA conference in Wellington next month.
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On Twitter (but I am still to return to the fold), here is an interesting piece by Henry Jenkins at MIT http://henryjenkins.org/2009/08/the_message_of_twitter.html
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I have a pen that looks exactly like that rocket above.
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They are meant to be martial arts
I prefer marital arts!
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We were in fits over the most recent ep to screen here -- where Leonard's mother comes to visit and totally bonds with Sheldon
...and the ep where Sheldon attempts to understand the etiquette of gift-giving. Brilliant!
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Ratings, schmatings! Let's not subscribe to the idea that Peoplemeter measurements* are anything to do with accurate audience measurement, nor anything much to do with what television viewing might be.
* which claim to measure "Presence in a room where a television set is on' in a sample of 500 NZ households.
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Of course, Two and A Half Men is based primarily on malice but it is such well-written and well-delivered malice--the kind of put-downs we wish we had thought of when faced with human self-delusion or stupidity?
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What, you mean with the neck-biting and the blood drinking and the sharp! pointed! teeth! and the 'crawling out of the ground covered in soil' and all that?
Well, they are vampires--and I don't know whether they wear socks.
As Bill and Sookie are an item in 'real life', I think there is a degree of verisimiliitude in their sex scenes.
I take your point, Emma, re HBO and American network TV. By some coincidence, I did a lecture today on HBO as 'transgressive' television, quoting both David Chase ("I had had it up to here with all the niceties of network television...I don't mean language and I don't mean violence. I just mean storytelling, inventiveness, something that really could entertain and surprise people" ) and Janet McCabe & Kim Akass in Quality TV 2007 ("HBO is conscious of defying television convention, adopting a tone with their original programming that makes it obvious that they know they are being openly transgressive"
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Would you make an exception for HBO dramas such as Six Foot Under or True Blood? The sex in the latter is pretty damn spot-on (or so I have been told!)
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You're soo slooow :)
Like slow cooking? I know, I know I will never catch up with some of you guys!