--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Adrian Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I'm not disagreeing with any of this but taking it on a tangent.
The
> "trad tv is dead", yep. That's already happened, that's why TV
> (certainly in Australia) has a lot of live sport and an enormous
> amount of 'reality' programming. Both of these work very well on
live
> to air because in the case of sport we generally watch it live and
> rarely watch it when we know the results (there are exceptions of
> course). Reality TV, which is largely TV's incorporation of the
logic
> of gaming (that'd be computer games, not casinos) into itself, has
> voting or some sort of deadline come competition element which
also
> encourages live viewing. Who gets voted out? Or similar. While
there
> remains quite a bit of drama many of us watch this via DVD,
downloads
> and so on - and from an Australian pov while we get things like
Six
> Feet Under, Sex and the City, The Soprano's all on free to air it
is
> clear that they are produced/paid for out of a non trad. TV model
(US
> cable).
>
>
hey, look for The Daredoll Dilemmas on your Aussie airwaves early
next year. we are told by an avid fan from Kilcunda that C31 from
Melbourne will be airing our show, late at night. and he is trying to
sell it to some larger stations there.
