My Monochrome Life

Alex Bitterman chats with you about design, consumer culture, and social responsibility.

CBS, Disney Examine Apple’s TV-Subscription Service – WSJ.com

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Netflix Spilled Your Brokeback Mountain Secret, Lawsuit Claims | Threat Level | Wired.com

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The Associated Press: ‘Glee’ cast joyful over Globe nods

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Glee. Best show ever.

OK. I’m never one to rave about TV, but maybe about this one show… Glee.

The best part of the entire season, captured here:

During which “Mercedes” (Amber Riley) is belting out “And I’M Telling You” from Dreamgirls. The cast, watching her performance totally breaks from character for the briefest of seconds ( you can see it on their faces). The camaraderie is nice to see on screen.

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Hulu – Glee: Sectionals – Watch the full episode now.

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Reading BBC Radio 3 news? There’s an App for that… | 9 to 5 Mac

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Little Italy in Buffalo

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Get to Know Us!

I’ve been searching for this for a few years, and I finally found it on YouTube.  When I was a kid, Buffalo had some of the best television around.  The most fun station to watch was WUTV Buffalo 29, and independent station that became one of the first FOX affiliates in the country.  When I was young, channel 29 just showed an endless stream of reruns that to a young person were endlessly more entertaining than anything else on the air.

The funny thing, is that my friend Lauren’s dad was the “voice” of WUTV.  Here are two promos one with his voice and one with a brief shot of him toward the end (after the lights come on).

The graphics — considering that these are from the early 80s and well before computers — are excellent.

 

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Some days you’re in, the next you’re out.

Project Runway

Various web reports are being posted that the days for Project Runway and Bravo! are numbered. Apparently, the company that produces and distributes the program has negotiated a deal with Lifetime to move the program after season 5 to Lifetime. That means that the next season will be Bravo’s last stand.

Could be interesting, as the “talent” for the series is contracted year to year — so it could mean that starting in season 6, we could see a whole new bumper crop in a revised Runway. We saw what those types of production changes did for the once unstoppable afternoon mega-hit Trading Spaces…it knocked the show so far off the radar that it’s nearly in the next galaxy.

Words of advice to Lifetime and Co.: Make it work.

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Wow.

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