Righty-ho, Tim. I will try to quell any Save The Inside campaign attempts as best I can.

I will keep updating TI.org with episode guides etc as I get time (currently spending a lot of time on Serenity in the UK) and leave it online as an archive of the show.

UK TV - it depends on the network. Example: Doctor Who. New series had 13 episodes, aired on BBC 1 at 7pm on a Saturday. Did very well. Coming back for 2 more series now. However, that is a rare investment exception.

Typically, something on ITV or Channel 4 here gets an initial 6 or so episode order - 10 if you are lucky. They tend to shoot everything prior to it airing - it's very rare for a scripted drama to still be shooting during broadcast. Few series get past the first series mark. Very few series have got more than 4 or 5 years in recent years.

To put it into perspective, the entire of Doctor Who's 13 episode run was budgeted at £3m - and that's very expensive by BBC standards. Things are very different in the US as there is a much bigger potential audience to justify spending more.

A lot of our programming comes from the US, which leads to a few layers of humour. For example, Wonderfalls and Firefly have had full airings in the UK, but we won't fund our own drama properly. By contrast, you guys will fund your drama, but won't air it properly.

Polter-Cow, in the true tradition of pod casting I think the BG ones were intended to be dloaded to your iPod and listened to on that, while you watched TV.

But I don't have an iPod either! Will no one think of my needs?!

Hahahaha, I'm starting to think Polter-Cow and I are long-lost evil twins or something.

Heh.

I like "commentistas" better than "buffentaries," because it's been so long since I wrote for Buffy anyway.

I'm in the UK and we obviously don't have The Inside on tv yet (let alone Lost) so obviously i ain't seen it.. (covering legal arse) < /sarcasm >

it is such a good show.. why do fox insist on screwing around with stuff.. it winds me up..

one plan.. we all chip together, and have quality tv shows on open access channels, and eventually (in 94years and 5months time) we'll be beating fox... yaaaaaah!

ok.. i'm going off an a weird tangent there so i'll shut up

Now I feel like a Central American Freedom Fighter.

The word "descommentisados" just popped into my head. Must. Scrub. Brain.

P-C, this is why I proposed a format other than/in addition to podcast - ogg or mp3 or whathaveyou. Because THAT could be turned into an audio CD, and CD players are significantly cheaper than iPods.

it's been so long since I wrote for Buffy anyway.

Snerk! I'm used to us plebeians making that joke but it's 30% funnier from Tim.

But I don't have an iPod either!

Um, turn the volume on the TV way up, and the volume on the PC way up, and sit halfway between them. Problem solved!

On the UK TV thing, I know my first exposure was when I checked out "The Office" on DVD. The "first series" and "second series" were each 6 episodes, and then they also made a 2-episode special.

I was initially perturbed, but (at least for The Office) it actually ended up working really well. It would have gotten stale with 22 episodes, and they tied up everything neatly with their 14, so I wasn't too hungry for more when it was done. It's an amazingly different approach from US TV, though.

Lost is getting CINEMA ADVERTS before WAR OF THE WORLDS in the UK at the moment. Specially shot adverts. With the cast.

Channel 4 are airing it.

They won't fund my original drama, though.

Kevin.. I really can't think of anything UK based that I actually watched apart from Dr Who.. (which cost around 26500 tv licence fees!)

Shameless on C4 is a good example of something lasting (however i don't watch it cos i don't think it is that good), but we really don't make our own good quality tv... it is a shame really IMHO (i'm not really that humble though)

I've just had more bad launches than the space shuttle program. And re-entry is a bitch.

OK, this made me laugh and laugh and laugh, in a really dark way. Because see, I might get laid off this week related to this very problem (and a few others. But this took a big bite.)

Mister Tim has that effect. The laughter, that is. Not crashes.