Every few months, some huge corporation with a vested interest in keeping any and all types of media locked down-usually because they own just about any and all types of media-will come up with some ridiculous bit of reasoning for why we, as consumers, deserve to have absolutely 0 rights with regards the content we’ve already paid, sometimes twice ( Read more... )

I used to watch the local “A Channel”, back when it wasn’t called the “A Channel” and actually had semi-decent broadcasting. Then CTV got a hold of it. Then CTV started slowly eating away at it. Then CTV started opening stations in markets that used to be primarily served by the “A Network”. Now, after pretty much weakening the network to the point ( Read more... )

Most of my readers were probably either right in the middle of, or just getting close to, their teens when Beavis and Butt-Head were actually coming out with new shows. And the rest were right about there when they went almost eternally into reruns. Now there’s a nasty little rumour floating around the intertubes that they’re coming back this ( Read more... )

Just when we thought Canadian content couldn’t suck any more than it did with Corner Gas, we get a special treat. From the folks who brought you that steaming pile comes this attempt at comedy.

Shooting begins in July on InSecurity, a 13-part “action comedy” about bumbling Canadian spies, producers said in Regina.

The series stars include relative ( Read more... )

You may or may not be aware Google’s coming up with its own TV platform. As is Apple, but that’s not been surprising since they pretty much came out with their own version of nearly everything else. What you may not know, though, is on your TV is precisely where Twitter would like to be. And, thanks to Google’s new and yet to actually be released ( Read more... )

Twenty seasons is all we’re gonna get out of the original Law & Order after shopping it around got the creators nowhere once the original network it ran on dumped it. It’s dead. Permanently. The funeral’s at 7:00 if anyone’s interested-I’ll bring the rum. And in other news, Law & Order: Los Angeles? Really? *Really*? You hollywood types could have ( Read more... )

I used to be a Rogers cable subscriber. Yes, even though-kind of like now-I don’t actually watch a whole lot of content strictly on TV. And every so often, something happens to remind me why it is I pretty much won’t be returning to them for anything but the absolutely necessary any time in the near future. This week, it’s their response to the ( Read more... )

I’ve always been slightly jealous of my US counterparts, mostly because of the fact they had access to Netflix for DVD rentals and whatnot. And then I discovered torrents, and my jealousy took a small vacation. Rogers tried to implement something similar, but I do believe they broke it in more than a few places. And now that I don’t have an ( Read more... )

Until there came rumblings on a few of the tech blogs I read occasionally about the possibility of a non-government copyright group going after people who it believes downloaded the movie illegally, I hadn’t ever heard of Hurt Locker. Indeed, it would have probably been one of those movies I ended up watching and not even seen an ad for. That is, ( Read more... )

I recently this year developed an interest in a TV show, “Ghost Whisperer”. The plot was halfway interesting, the characters were semi-realistic-except for that whole ghosts thing, but hey, some people actually believe they can do that-and it was actually not something I ended up falling asleep to. It was also cancelled. Go figure. I’m starting to ( Read more... )