A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much any other "genre" show that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
Whitefont all unaired in the U.S. ep discussion, identifying it as such, and including the show and ep title in blackfont.
Blackfont is allowed after the show has aired on the east coast.
This is NOT a general TV discussion thread.
I don't mind noticing. I'd have noticed Red Stripe any way they did it--just like if they were drinking a can of Coke.
In that sense, it's a good way to reinforce existing brands, but if they're subtle, how will you know they're drinking that cool new beer you haven't heard of yet?
Thence comes art.
If every bottle faces the camera...not slick. If one does, and the others show enough of the branding, okay.
See, me and mine do name car makes and models. However, no one says "Oh, let's get in the BMW 325 today!" It's either the BMW or the 325, depending. It's like giving the full address with zipcode, when you're just going two blocks over.
The really unslick was the way that for awhile Apple Powerbooks were in EVERY SINGLE SHOT, often with Post-Its desperately placed to obscure the light-up logo.
Maybe there was just no point int keeping it on the air - they had their syndication numbers, and it had to be getting expensive...
That's what I've heard. For syndication, having > 100 episodes isn't really an advantage.
Honestly, advertisers shouldn't be paying for me as a TiVo user. I don't watch their stuff, pure and simple. All I ever watch are movie previews, and even then I have to be controlling the remove and my husband snarls.
Remote. Remote remote remote.
advertisers shouldn't be paying for me as a TiVo user
Problem is, the less they pay for you, the less of your TV you stand to get.
What sacrifices (or suggestions) are we TiVoheads willing to make to accomodate that?
Making peace with the onscreen bugs is totally not a way I'm willing to go.
What sacrifices (or suggestions) are we TiVoheads willing to make to accomodate that?
Per-show subscription fees. It's time.
Honestly, I think it's up to the advertisers to make ads that make me want to backup the FF and watch. I actually do do that for movie trailers that flash past. Or the Comcastic ads that have been running of late, or the cute Target ads with people dancing.
I stop to watch that Gap "Khakis swing" ad when watching oooold tapes of shows it sponsored back in the 90s. It was generally more fun than the actual programming around it.
"Or move their existing ones.
How committed is SciFi to a Tuesday line-up?"
I don't know. I don't think we fit on that Friday though - that was always "Space and Alien Night". I mean, we're holding our numbers alone on Tuesday so if I were them, I'd try working with two different nights to launch all the new shows they're working on.
Then again, only they know all the variables they're considering. So who knows. Maybe they're clearing a spot for that Galactica prequel.
Colin is kind enough, or at least circumspect enough, to believe that there's rational thought involved. This is the network of "we don't do space-based science fiction except for the space-based science fiction we do, and professional wrestling is scifi, or at least it's fiction and there's gravity involved."
