Category: Old Media
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Why Are Broadcasters Trying To Break The Internet?
In the same way that DVD region-coding has no place in this, the age of Amazon, eBay and unlocked players, television broadcasters have no business trying to restrict their content on the web. I can illustrate from my own experience with two examples of how they’ve tried and failed: 1. Crossing Streams – I do…
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Requiem for a Tech Show
Talk about bad timing… Last Friday morning I fired off an email to one of the show’s producers pitching myself as a guest — little did I know that The Lab with Leo had already been cancelled. As lame as it sounds, The Lab and its predecessor Call for Help have been my dinner date…
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Ten Years Later (Plus One)
(Speaker’s Corner today — closed for renovation, or possibly forever?) Well, I’m an idiot… Last year around this time Al Howell sent me a congratulatory text on the 10-year anniversary of our first Speaker’s Corner broadcast as The Devil’s Advocates. I quickly corrected him, thinking that we started our Satanic shtick in 1997, but I…
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BIFF 10: Day 7
Last night I sat through 102 Minutes of Shorts. I say “sat through” because it was amazing to me, someone who makes his living within the constraints of five or so minute-scenes at The Second City, that so few of these films actually worked. Here’s the YouTube trailer for Jokers are Trumps, a made-in-Bermuda short…
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BIFF 10: Day 2
The first stinker of the 2007 Bermuda Film Festival is official — How Is Your Fish Today? is a plodding introspective look at a screenwriter’s disillusion with the big city of Beijing. Hey Xiaolu Guo, instead of wasting two hours of screen time whining, why not just pack up your shit and move to Shanghai?…
Andrew Currie 