Weird vibe of living in the future these past few days (which was at least part of the impetus for the vignette of the previous entry). One example – bad 80s television is turning up in DVD collections – A-Team and the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon recently announced.
I’ve been talking for several years how DVD is going to be the breakthrough for TV collecting. A lot of genre stuff has been available for well over a decade, but nothing much mainstream until a few years ago. Now the dam has burst. It’s cool. The Freaks and Geeks DVD is being released soon, as is Homicide season 3. That warms my heart. These are shows that deserve extended appreciation.
It’s all part of the seachange in the medium. When digital delivery a la Tivo becomes as mainstream as the VCR, which isn’t far away (look at the takeup of DVD to see how quick this turnaround works now), then we’ll have gone into an entirely new realm from the world of commercial TV in the 80s.
And that’s good. Because, by and large, commercial TV in the 80s sucked.
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Chris Eccleston is the new Doctor Who. This is brilliant news. The man is the business. This is gonna be a good thing. My prediction: sales to US cable television will ensure it will last at least 3 seasons, each about 13 episodes long. That’s about all I reckon Eccleston will stay for, though, and then we’ll have to see.
I like Doctor Who.
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Dude, he so rocked in The Revenger’s Tragedy!
I like Freaks and Geeks and Doctor Who, and have ordered my F&G DVD in a forthright manner.
I received a ribbing the other night from Stuart McD for having once belonged to the NZDWFC. Philistine.
Poor Stuart, beset by false consciousness. There are stories we could tell about him that would curl the toes of the world…