Started watching FX’s Shōgun (UK: Disney+) - a breathtaking attention to detail in retelling James Clavell’s story. There’s also an official podcast and viewer’s guide relating the background to each episode, and situating it historically. Highly recommended! #Television
Stephen Colbert has sat in the "Late Show" spinny chair for a decade now. He spoke with Entertainment Weekly about his office decor — his kids' old art projects hang beside a copy of Donald Trump's impeachment resolution — how he fell in love with the monologue, and the fine art of blending stupid and smart.
"Halt and Catch Fire" premiered 10 years ago and went on for four seasons and 40 episodes. @polygon's Devan Suber describes how the beloved AMC show understood the draw of video games better than any show that's come before it. "In the words of Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace), the computer was always 'the thing that gets us to the thing,' a vector for connection, expression, or some other deeper human need."
@Jyoti Hopefully it doesn't sound too weird to say that we thought of you when we saw this as one of our very early fediverse conversations was with you, about this show!
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"I’ve been thinking, lately, about the theme of 'American presidents who commit felonies.' I don’t know why; it’s just been on my mind recently for some reason," writes Crime Reads' Olivia Rutigliano. She's created this list of fictional presidents from TV and and film who've committed felonies, including President Fitz from "Scandal," President Frank Underwood from "House of Cards," and more. "As I just said, these are fictional examples, so if some real guy who was elected the President of the United States of America committed anything equivalent to these things in real life, it’d be way, way worse," Rutigliano concludes.
#OnThisDay, May 31, 1921, the Greenwood district in Tulsa, Oklahoma, known as “Black Wall Street”, was attacked by a white mob that burned the neighborhood, killing between 100 and 300 black people and injuring hundreds more (depicted in Watchmen, 2019)
What distinguished television from film as a medium, from its very early days, was live broadcasting. As time went on, and more and more TV shows were prerecorded, this was kind of forgotten. But until VHS came along and allowed audiences to timeshift both films and TV shows, television still retained that live event quality; be there or you missed it.
So it's frustrating to see the current owners of TV3 doing the opposite. Warner Discovery have their roots in the production of films and TV shows, so it's not surprising to see them leaning into pre-recorded content. But a TV station that wants a future in the digital media age needs to be doing the opposite. The future of TV - if it has one - is live, and probably regionalised (Canterbury folks, remember The Mainland Touch?)