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Trailer for the new series of 24. Looks exciting.
Jack should have kept the beard though.
This is something that I am not buying at all. Appart from the fact that the breaks last longer than the quoted 60 seconds (including 20 seconds for ten’s promo for it) I am starting to think that these ads are spliced in at shorter intivales than the usual 8 min odd. In other words, the audience is being manipulated into staying in front of the Telly rather than getting up because its not the standard commercial length. On the other hand I think from a promotional point of view its working, yet there is something rather underhanded about it.
We’re getting a lot of good discussion going on in the comments on this here blog – especially with the new shows in the fall season out of the US at the moment…
I mentioned very briefly and very spontaneously in Pork this week that we might get a few of our regular commenters on board as fully fledged contributors to the blog – make new posts about what you’ve seen on the telly or on the interweb, all that sort of stuff…
I think you guys know who you are… if you’re keen to write the occasional post, send us an email at the usual address – hooray@boxcutters.net – and we’ll set you up.
Also, while I’m here, we’d love to get to know you in the comments section… Now that a security hole in WordPress has been patched, self registration is turned back on and it’d be great to be able to see who’s saying what in the comments area of the posts.
BB
Hot on the heels of Heroes Jericho becomes the second of the new fall season to get the nod for a full series.
Good to see, although I am sure Brett would think maybe they should have just picked up every second ep!!
And Ugly Betty makes it three. Good news for Channel 7 who have both Betty and Heroes.
EDIT: Brothers And Sisters picked up as well.
Here’s a deleted scene you won’t be seeing in the new Borat movie…
Watch it under the fold – Continue reading “Borat” »
Hey Kids!
It must be the warmer weather or the spring time of year getting people’s hormones going but there’s a feeling in the air that’s palpable. You can tell it’s going on all around you – just out of sight – and you might be missing out… the feeling of billions of little bits zooming around the net pipes into the living rooms and offices in your neighbourhood.
So I thought I might make things a little easier for you to get in for your share – and of course it helps everyone else doing it at the same time – with a few links to bittorrent resources that are floating my boat.
The most handy site I’ve found for the new shows in the US fall season is iPodNova. You’ve gotta register to get your hands dirty but there’s no restriction for registering and, with a good UL/DL ratio, it makes you feel good with every page you look at, with your personal scoreboard at the top. Get on board at ipodnova.net.
There’s a site that specialises in Australian/New Zealand Sports and TV shows that is normally an invitation only site – oops, it is again now – DAMN! – called Diwana.org. I got a heads up that registrations were open a week or two ago so picked one up – you never know when you’ll wake up all Sports Billy and just HAVE to get a torrent of the NRL Grand Final. Here’s a sample of the shows available on the front page right now:
It’s nice having a site that specialises in local TV – even if there is so much sport content there. If there’s another open season for regos or if I happen to earn some invites, I’ll let you guys know.
The other regular one I use for hard-to-gets is bitmetv.org which I got onto through an invite from regular listener, Alex Boxcutter. I’m guessing there’s a fairly high contingent of local members because I was able to get something quite rare like S1&2 of Love My Way from there. The great thing about this site is the quality control of the encoding, etc of the downloads. They’re quite strict about only having one available version of a show in the best quality. I’ve been quite active on this site and have a good ratio (2.550) going on so I might have an invite or two soon…
Other than those – and not necessarily just for TV torrent downloads – I use Torrent Scan which is a handy multi-tracker-searcher that gives you a list of good trackers to run the same search in until you find what you’re after. My faves are isoHunt and Torrent Reactor and then I click around fairly randomly.
So there’s some rockets for your arsenal – get out there and keep our world-beating per-capita rating going (if you’re in Australia – otherwise, forget you read any of this and don’t you dare click on any of those links. DON’T! STOP!)
BB
Last week Brett broke the news that Channel 9 were planning to screen ep 2 then ep 4 of Rome and we speculated if that might be because it would be gone by then…
Next week Survivor is on the 9:30 slot with no sign of Rome.
They suck. Why put anything on at all if you are not going to give it a chance. Sure it didn’t rate great. And Josh didn’t like it. But still, why bother screening it? Very, very disappointing once again. At the risk of sounding like a disgruntled Green Guide writing moron – no wonder so many people are downloading.
I remembered I promised this little link for you guys…
It’s the Orson Welles outtakes for some Californian champagne he was shooting while, perhaps, having sampled too much of the client’s product.
Click the more link to see the clip.
Channel 10 have made the switch.
Tench is back to 9:30 and Jericho is coming on the 8:30 timeslot.
Probably a bright move, but doesn’t help those of us recording a podcast around the 8:30 timeslot on the other side of town.
Hmmmm, Jericho or Loser Survivor… Or go all mutli video like the Brettster.
RB
We’ve seen more of him in the ads than in the driver’s seat in recent years so it’s perhaps more of a shock that Peter Brock was behind the wheel when he was killed today, slamming into a tree when he lost control going around a hairpin bend in a rally.
I guess it’s just one of those weeks.
bb
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