March 21, 2008
Super Cat vs Evil Cow and Possibly a Friendly Menacing Robot
Nick Brendon *is* SUPER CAT. He just is, ok?
Cartoon Network would be fools to turn this new show away. You see that, Brendon? That stack of hundreds...I'm waiting on them.
(Seriously, the show's got potential. My DVR stands at the ready.
(via super you tube, nickbrendon.com)
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February 28, 2008
Geek Networking of the 1990s was Quaint, Televised, Canadian
Explore the origins of Sci Fi fandom. See how little Neil Gaiman has changed in 15 years. Recoil at the (usual) curtness of Harlan Ellison. Be amazed by the teenaged Garth Ennis.
Chuckle at 90s TV graphics. I could probably do a rather long essay on how internet graphics changed the visual design landscape of television. I'll save that for another obsession.
(via neil gaiman, Prisoners of gravity: Fans, a response to neil gaiman's sharing of the Fans You Tube by the creator of Fans)
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December 06, 2007
Son of a Bitch. Look What they Dug Up.
It's the damnedest thing.
I didn't know there was a Max Headroom pirating incident in 1987.
Sumbitch.
(via warren ellis)
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November 20, 2007
A Love Story 60 Years in the Making
(via writer's strike twitter, kiss me first youtube)
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November 17, 2007
Doctor. Doctor? Half of 10 is 5.
The 5th and 10th Doctors meet for a very special relief.
Americans and other folks not in the general BBC area, watch this short special(while you can) and donate what you can.
Folks who have not seen the 10th Doctor's 3rd season might want to ignore this post.
Please note that I peed myself a little while watching that. Now if only Tom Baker were willing to make an appearance and if it wouldn't look so unfortunate on camera for him.
Some dreams aren't meant to come true, alas.
(via ontd, timey wimey you tube, children in need)
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November 12, 2007
That's Another 20 Dollars Out the Damn Door
(via glarkware)
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How The Future Killed Television
You do know that you are living in the future right now? Damon Lindeloff sure does. He talks about how television is dying in his New York times article "Mourning TV"
Twenty percent of American homes now contain hard drives that store movies and television shows indefinitely and allows you to fast-forward through commercials. These devices will probably proliferate at a significant rate and soon, almost everyone will have them. They’ll also get smaller and smaller, rendering the box that holds them obsolete, and the rectangular screen in your living room won’t really be a television anymore, it’ll be a computer. And running into the back of that computer, the wire that delivers unto you everything you watch? It won’t be cable; it will be the Internet.This probably sounds exciting if you’re a TV viewer, but if you’re in the business of producing these shows, it’s nothing short of terrifying. This is how vaudevillians must have felt the first time they saw a silent movie; sitting there, suddenly realizing they just became extinct: after all, who wants another soft-shoe number when you can see Harold Lloyd hanging off a clock 50 feet tall?
The Lindelof article is a good read. I suggest you give it a go.
(via the new york times)
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October 23, 2007
THE IT CROWD Creator Says "No" to Learning and/or Hugging
Apparently the USA version will not get to air. I can't say I'm sorry to hear that. I did not see The PTBs translating the british humor very well(see 1st season of THE OFFICE or that godawful American version of COUPLING).
British IT CROWD creator, Graham Linehan, thinks on what it'd take to make his creation work for an American audience.
As far as I can make out, even the oddest US mainstream sitcom–’Seinfeld’, say– is rooted in the real world. Mainstream American audiences aren’t used to characters who can cling to ceilings, or sit calmly playing computer games while a fire is raging beside them…all that crap that makes me laugh. I’m not saying they’re incapable of handling this kind of humour, I’m just saying that if you really intend to do this kind of nutty show, you can’t just grab the scripts and slap a few American actors on it. You need to rethink the whole thing, so that people who haven’t seen, say, ‘Blackadder’ about a thousand times, don’t get turned off by all the silly.Anyway, this brings me to my main reason for writing this post. It’s a long shot, but should anyone from NBC find the project lying around in a drawer before the option is up and decide to give it another go, I thought I’d do a quick checklist of things they might try in order to give any future version a snowball’s chance in hell of finding an audience.
His thoughts are worth the read.
(via the beat, Graham Linehan's blog)
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