Going postal

[proggrrl]

I'm just post-happy this evening!  Woo hoo!

*jumps around, yelling and flinging little posts at the flist*

OK.  For serious.  Here are two great posts on Watch With Kristin and The Ausiello Report where you can get up-to-the-minute news on the status of your fave TV shows now that the strike is pretty much over.   And this Variety piece is about the

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[brokenmnemonic]

Maybe one of the differences is that I'm used to seeing things serialised here in 60/90/120 minute episodes over a total airtime of six or eight hours, and usually without advert breaks. It's a striking difference to the cable channels, where everything is 42-43 minute episodes with loads of space for advertising.

I'm hoping that the 7 or 8 episode arc for Jericho will prove a good industry model - I'd love to see shows that are more tightly written, rather than padded up to 20 episodes with nothing episodes. Anything that ends the current pilot season madness has to be good - I remember hearing some of the Galactica cast talking about being at the second callback for a two line part, along with 49 other people.

I got the job :) It's not theatre manager though, sadly... that'd be too much fun ;) I'm a performance manager, officially - responsible for reporting our team's performance, constructing internal business agreements, that sort of thing. Mostly, I deal with silly questions :P That and do project reporting, write briefs and presentations, that sort of thing. It's a huge salary bump up to the next grade though - my pay's been screwed over by the current government repeatedly, and after five years in grade I was only one step above the bottom of the pay band, which means the bottom of the band I've moved up to was well above my currently salary. Hello, 25% payrise :)