The Hollywood Reporter has details of a new regular appearing on Lost next season. To avoid, spoiling you, I’ll leave all the facts to the Reporter, rather than splurge them here.
There are also some big spoilers over on SciFi Wire, if you’re interested.
Remember Aquaman? No? Not surprising really. Almost no one’s seen it until today, because it was a failed pilot for new network The CW. But in a move that echoes Nobody’s Watching‘s emergence on YouTube, NBC is selling it on iTunes in the US.
Could this be the way of the future? Networks making money from pilots they never even turned into series?
I hope not. When you consider some of the shows that do become series, you have to wonder how bad some of those failed pilots have to be to avoid being turned into series. And then be asked to pay to for them? No thank you.
It’s been gone for a while now, and its lustre is starting to dull, but Babylon 5 is still one of the most popular sci-fi shows of the 90s.
So some no-doubt crowd-pleasing news is that creator J Michael Straczynski reveals that he’s going to be making some direct-to-DVD anthology shows featuring Babylon 5 characters at Warner Brothers’ request. Production starts in September, with the release of the first DVD in Q2 2007.
Got a bit of junk mail through my door last week. It was extolling the virtues of Sky. I have Sky. What a waste of paper.
I’d normally just have junked it, but things change and sometimes you miss new services, so I decided to leaf through it anyway.
I got to the “mixes” section. Sky works like this: as well as the free channels and the premium channels, such as Sky Sports, that you pay for separately, there are a whole range of paid-for channels like Sky One that you get in bundles with other channels. You decide which of the six entertainment “mixes” contain the channels you’d like it and order none, two, four or six of them.
So I looked through the mixes, noted that there were only two that had channels in that I liked, noted further that I was paying for six mixes and immediately cancelled my subscription to the unwanted four.
The result? A poorly targeted marketing mailshot actually cost the offending company subscription revenue. Result! What a heart-warming tale.
Actually, I did have to decide whether I’d prefer the “style and culture” mix or the “knowledge” mix, since you can’t subscribe to just three mixes (two or four only). I went for ‘knowledge’ rather than ‘style’. Not sure if that was a mistake.
Which would you have picked? You can find the list on the Sky web site.
Because it was rubbish?
Oh, you meant other than that. ABC explains all over here.
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