TV Decoder Blog: TV Decoder: âKid Nationâ Makes Little Racket
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"Kid Nation" premiered with a roar and ended with a whimper. (CBS) CBSâs controversial reality series âKid Nationâ went out with a whimper on Wednesday, with a fourth-place finish in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic. The finale averaged a 2.2 rating and a 6 share in the 18-to-49 demographic, but garnered enough viewers (7.4 million) for a [...].
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At 34, Andre Agassi has seen a lot of things in tennis. And here's one more that he'd like to add: instant replay.
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This season âHouseâ has reached as many as 17.5 million viewers a week. And those numbers were scored before the show enjoyed what it will enjoy again, starting Tuesday â the adjacency to âIdol.â
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Back from bouncing around the TV industry for a couple weeks, so I need to play some catch-up today, but first, this little story.
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For the moment at least, the antistrike strategy of replacing scripted entertainment with so-called reality series seems inspired.
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Goodbye, $1.99 iTunes. Hello, free NBC rentals.
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Stan Douglasâs most recent art video, âKlatsassin,â is both a murder mystery and a western that doesnât follow Hollywoodâs narrative formulas.
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The hit show 'Valley of the Wolves' was recently pulled off the air for stoking nationalist fervor.
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In what has become an annual tradition, last week I staged a one-man âsick outâ from my day job to visit the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas. And Iâd like to correct a few wild rumors before they get out of hand. First, I did not walk off with the sashimi platter at the Verizon party at Nobu, nor did I challenge Jackie Chan to a Drunken Fist deathmatch at the XaviX press conference.
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As I said above I'm glued to the TV, but I'm also on Twitter, and blogging, and email, and IM and I'm subscribed to hundreds of RSS feeds, and I've been noticing that slowly the TV news organizations are integrating new Internet services with their TV offerings. They're all getting started, and eventually I'm pretty sure they'll be where Yahoo is now. The thing is, it works. For example, newmediajim is a cameraman for NBC News and he's on Twitter and sometimes I'm watching the other side of his camera on MSNBC and twittering with him before and after. A guy named creepsleepy is a radio guy in Manchester, interviewing presidential candidates, wouldn't it be great if I could listen to his interviews while he twitters his progress? Well, there's no doubt that soon we'll be doing that. We're finally really at the convergence so many have predicted for so long. With the help of a few members of the community Yahoo can get there first. BTW, I read on the NY Times site that Yahoo is going to open up more to developers. Hmmm. If you want to impress end-users and shareholders run it in MSM. If you want to get through to developers, use the developer blogs. Let us have the story first, otherwise you don't seem very serious about it.
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Reposted in the queue as it's impossible or at least very complicated to move it as I asked (although the post where aphrael said such thing disappeared so perhaps this is not the case after all - another minor K5 mystery).  The original discussion can be found here (read it as there are some clarifications by rusty). All right, here is the (adapted) diary. Rusty posted a comment in the diary entitled "Would you pay 10USD for K5 Life Membership?" saying that K5 will become a pay site once new user registrations will be reactivated: "I was thinking $5.00 (none / 0) (#18) by rusty on Thu Sep 06, 2007 at 04:42:15 PM CET But it would actually be charged. That plus a hash of the identifying CC info so you only get one account ever, and I think we'd either shrivel up to nothing and die, or solve the spamming and crapflooding issues. Funny that someone else is thinking about this right now. It'll probably happen before I turn new signups back on." This of course begs the question: HIBT? If so I'll bite (see some considerations under the fold).
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Comment is free: Simon Jenkins: Cameron's plethora of programmes is winning him few friends. To beat Brown, he needs humour, aggression and charm.
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A look at NBC's coverage of the summer Olympic games from Athens:
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There are a lot of words  you can use to describe reality-style competitions on TV, but  until the broadcast of NBC's "My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad"  on Monday, "wholesome" was not among them. There is more good  sportsmanship in this series than you'll find on a half-dozen  peewee soccer fields.
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A buddy of mine who once worked as a New York City assistant DA shared the following insight with me: Most criminals are not very bright. He and I had just seen a heist movie -- something where an evil genius and his sharp-as-tacks cronies had pulled of an inordinately complex scheme to knock over a bank, grabbing millions in the process. In truth, however, most criminals are more "Fargo" than "Oceans 13," and that goes for cyber criminals, as well.
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It tries to turn its live music show into a TV star.
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Tycho: Keek directed me to a radical (and potentially even "badical") article on BioShock over at Gamers Wif Jobs. I've been wondering about the recent PR shift the game has gone through, because I don't just keep hearing that it is a "shooter first," but I keep hearing specifically that it is a "kick-ass shooter," even though it's a game where you learn about Objectivism underwater while helping jealous composers get revenge. I've never doubted that the game will be great, by whatever road it reaches that greatness. The recent WWE slant just had me curious about whether I'll be able to perform a suplex in-game. You may not think that is important, but it is totally important.(CW)TB