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Monday, September 17, 2007

CBS Begins to Acknowledge That Kid Nation Will Not Be Good / Jossip

CBS Begins to Acknowledge That Kid Nation Will Not Be Good / Jossip:

"To maintain an air of “mystery” around Kid Nation, CBS will not give advance
episodes to critics for review. Ironically, this air of mystery was not
maintained for advertisers, who were offered an advance screening earlier this
month. But without seeing an episode, here’s our advanced review: Kid Nation
will be sort of creepy."


I don't see how this show is going to hold viewers beyond the first couple episodes. If they have some stupid romantic affair between the kids, that would be so outrageous. If they have some trumped up reality fight, like all the shows have now, how much would you like to watch kids fights. The appeal to the show doesn't seem to be there, and if it is, it makes it more uncomfortable to watch not more entertaining.

Friday, August 31, 2007

Quoted / Jossip:

Quoted / Jossip:

"If CBS were as proud of Kid Nation as the network would have us believe,
then why were such pains taken to shoot in secrecy, and do it in a state that
did not protect children on show-biz sets, and in such a way that guild rules
didn’t apply? Moonves should lift the gag orders on the 40 children and their
parents who signed a 22-page agreement in which a strict confidentiality clause
prohibits disclosure of information about the show and contact with the media
over the next three years. If violated, a $5 million penalty is levied. I say,
if CBS has nothing to hide, then let everyone involved talk freely.–Nikki Finke,
commending the New York Times"

The whole thing is dirty, the more you know about it, the worse it sounds. This show is not going to do well for the network, and it should be pulled. The network is going to attempt to run it and make some of the money production money back. I don't think that is going to happen, viewers will not watch it, and advertisers will begin to pull out.

Monday, August 20, 2007

CBS Faces Controversy Over New Show "Kid Nation"

CBS Faces Controversy Over New Show "Kid Nation"

There is troubling brewing in Bonanza City, New Mexico thanks to a brand new CBS
reality show called “Kid Nation. ” 40 children aged 8 to 15 were dropped off in
what had become an abandoned ghost town with “no parents and no rules“, as
explained by Executive Producer, Tom Forman. As seen in a current promo running
on CBS, for 40 days the children cooked their own meals, cleaned their own
outhouses, formed a government and ran their own businesses, all without adult
intervention or participation.


What kind of people think this show sounds like a good idea, people who don't have a job anymore. The show is being attacked by parents for what it claims amounted to abuse and neglect, apparently some kids got sick from drinking bleach from an unmarked bottle, and other was injured by grease while cooking. The network is also looking at trouble regarding if the show violated child labor laws in the state. Some of the children reportedly worked from sun up to sun down.

Sunday, August 5, 2007

Matt Damon Does Matthew McConaughey


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I originally had a a video of Matt promoting his new movie on Letterman but it got deleted.

Sunday, July 22, 2007

CBS content to appear on 400 sites - Lost Remote TV Blog

CBS content to appear on 400 sites - Lost Remote TV Blog:

"CBS execs say that’s the goal — syndicate the network’s content to 400 sites by
this fall. “CBS is all about open, nonexclusive partnerships,” CBS Interactive
president Quincy Smith said. “Just CBS.com is not the answer.” The network has
already partnered with 24 sites — and spent aggressively in paid search — and
execs say the end result has been a huge surge in unique users from 21M to 134M
a month."


The easiest way to make sure that your videos are being distributed is to put them on the video sharing sites, LiveLeak, YouTube, Brightcove - in ways that they can easily be embedded in other sites. The videos that are often on my blog come from a number of these sources. I think that CBS is moving in the right direction here, the idea is about getting as many people to view your content as possible. Many of the channels and video producers include short ads on the videos, which I think most people understand. People understand that someone has to pay for the production of content.

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