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.
Flophouse: The Epic Entertainment Fails of 2012
There was a lot to anticipate in world of entertainment in 2012, but not everything lived up to the hype. From movie blockbusters to comics reboots, we’ve made a list of the media that disappointed us most over the last 12 months – or at least the glorious failures we enjoyed watching implode from afar.
via Flophouse: The Epic Entertainment Fails of 2012 | Underwire | Wired.com.
Game of Thrones Season 3 Featurette
11 mil see ‘Walking Dead’ midseason-wrap premiere
Nearly 11 million people watched the mid-season finale of AMC’s “The Walking Dead” at 9 p.m. Sunday night – about 60 percent more people than had tuned in to same, last year.
AMC’s zombie-drama — the most watched ad-supported drama series in basic cable history – is also, as of its midseason break, TV’s second most watched program of the fall among 18-49 year olds advertisers prefer, behind only NBC’s Sunday football.
via 11 mil see ‘Walking Dead’ midseason-wrap premiere – The TV Column – The Washington Post.
A Day of Dissapointing Movie Posters
Not that I was hoping for much from the Star Trek: Into Darkness poster since the poster for Star Trek (2009) was so crummy, but I was hoping for more from Man of Steel. Look at how subtle the poster for the first Iron Man was, and even Thor. Then look at the ham-handed so overly Photoshopped it looks like a comp poster for Man of Steel. Heck, I even prefer the poster for Superman Returns over this.
