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...slowly creeping out that Black.White.?s handlers are undeterred by unpleasant facts. Responding to charges of creative manipulation in the Los Angeles Times, FX Network?s president, John Landgrad, said that reality shows are "at liberty to play it fast with characters and realties of what actually happened." A fair point, even if it's from the James Frey school of drama, but in fictionalizing, the show ignores much more compelling realities. I was amazed that Black.White. could be filmed in Los Angeles, where the population is 44% Latino and 48% white, and yet still proceed as though the ancient...
When it comes to the digital future, Walt Disney Co.'s pioneering strategy seems to be to act quickly and ask questions later. After becoming the first network to sell commercial-free downloaded shows through Apple's iTunes video service last year, ABC revealed Monday that it plans a two month "test" offering four primetime shows free online via streaming video. Beginning April 30, fans of Lost, Desperate Housewives, Alias and Commander In Chief with access to broadband internet connections will be able to watch the programs on abc.com the day after their television debuts, with each episode carrying...
...thing ABC (and other networks) can count on is a drawn-out brouhaha with the Screen Actors Guild, the Directors Guild, and other Hollywood unions. Unions are already demanding a boost in residuals members earn for iTunes downloads, and they may ask for additional money coming from the new revenues generated by streaming video ad sales. SAG says all unions combined now get a piddling two cents for each $1.99 download, with actors receiving about half of that, and the Writers Guild of America, which represents scriptwriters, says their residual amounts to less than half a cent. For its part...
...Indeed, every network and Internet portal is scrambling to get online. Last month, Warner Bros. Television and AOL launched In2TV, an ad-supported streaming video service offering hundreds of vintage shows online, with upcoming plans for paid downloads as well as original webisodes from Punk'd creator Ashton Kutcher and Survivor producer Mark Burnett. CBS has been streaming NCAA basketball games, while also selling CSI and other shows on Google. NBC has become a major content provider to iTunes, and previewed The Office on MySpace before the show hit traditional airwaves...
...most cautious online programmer of the Big Four - is still treading carefully, but last month the network began offering FX series Black. White. and the miniseries Thief on its sister DirecTV satellite system 48 hours before the shows had their premieres on the cable channel. Plans are in the works to do the same for upcoming episodes of FX's hits Rescue Me and The Shield. According to recent studies by Points North Group and Horowitz Associates Inc., nearly half (47%) of adults between 18 and 34 said they'd pay to see a show before it runs on traditional...