It took a bit of digging this year to compile my “best of” list. Usually, the problem is that I find so many posters that I have to cull quite a few good ones just to make this list a manageable size, but not this year. This year the challenge was just finding enough posters for the list. I found lots of posters I liked, but only a few I loved.
The best poster of the year is the series of posters released for the second season of the HBO TV series Game of Thrones.
In prime time’s world of wish fulfillment, Freaks and Geeks was the opposite: 18 episodes that nailed the sad, hilarious unfairness of teen life. The cult following for its single, 1999 season—still growing, on Netflix—would herald a new school of comedy led by executive producer Judd Apatow. He, creator Paul Feig, and cast members including Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, and James Franco tell Robert Lloyd what made the show both great and doomed.
via: http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/01/freaks-and-geeks-oral-history
Hyrum Graff (Harrison Ford) and Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield). Due in theaters next fall. More info here.
Cable TV has developed one of the most clever business models in our modern economy. (…)AMC(…) tweaked its business and began offering two or three hours of original programming on a few dozen nights a year. (…)This business model, perhaps as much as artistic creativity, is responsible for TV’s current golden age. Networks have effectively entered into a quality war. Basic-cable channels have to broadcast shows that are so good that audiences will go nuts when denied them.