Wednesday, January 17, 2007

4GM: NATPE Notes and mini-DVD's

The wonderful Alice in Wonderland -- who made me eat raw frikkin' rutabagas last Friday, which my Irish red-meat-and scotch-trained stomach is just barely digesting now -- is at the National pow-wow of panicking television producers and executives. Some interesting notes on tech and snippets of a keynote by Chris Anderson of Long Tail fame.

EDIT: Mad Bill over at DISContent has pointed out that the first four episodes of 24 are out today on DVD. Such mini-issues -- Bill cunningly calls them "bump" releases -- have long been a crucial part of what I saw as the new model for television in both release and financing. The short-term financial bumps will replace the long-term massive cash infusion that's ordinarily fronted for the long, dinosauric 22 episode seasons.

This is why I'm never stumped by the question "who will pay for the TV of the future?" Markets will out, and savvy mainstream producers will adapt, intentionally or not.

19 comments:

Anonymous said...

There was an article in today's USA Today about Heroes, and apparently Tim Kring is referring to the story arcs as "pods," as in, the first 11 episodes of the season were one pod, then there's another five episodes, followed by another break, then the remaining six episodes of the season. Kind of like graphic novels, I suppose, splitting up the arcs like that.

Anonymous said...

I'm sure Netflix are just drooling over these things too...

I'm also wondering if moving to this sort of model for Battlestar (instead of the twice yearly sets we currently enjoy) will smoothe out some of their rumored problems. A quarterly set with 5 episodes each would be nice.

These also might be a great opportunity for a retailer to step up and front these for an exclusive. Best Buy and Wal-Mart have done exclusives like these in the past to much success.

Yes, the market will out.

Anonymous said...

Over here in the UK, they've been releasing Doctor Who DVDs in four-episode vanilla releases, before releasing the extras-filled boxset after the season's aired (the fact that the extras on the boxset are a bit crap isn't really that important). Amusingly, obsessive fans often buy both releases...

Anonymous said...

I forgot to mention that Lee Thomson made this same "vanilla DVD" observation over at my blog.

Re: Extras being crap - aren't they reworked pieces from Doctor Who Confidential and the website? Basically "recycled" material?

Anonymous said...

Ever since I got my hands on a couple of Emmy screener DVDs - a lot of them end up donated to the Planned Parenthood book sales or other sort of things - I've wondered why networks don't print up an extra few thousand and sell them cheaply or stick them in issues of Entertainment Weekly or so forth. Seems like an easy way to get the critically acclaimed but not watched shows to a bigger audience.

Anonymous said...

Short-lived series JACK AND BOBBY came in Entertainment weekly by dvd. Actually got me to watch...

Anonymous said...

Re: Dr Who DVD extras
Let's see... there's a disc of cut-down documentaries previously aired on TV, some video diaries from David Tennant, new commentaries and 5.1 sound (the vanilla discs are stereo only), and a few other bells and whistles (outtakes, deleted scenes). So not *too* crap.

But they don't give you full-screen versions of the mobile phone teasers (they're also up on the BBC site), and there's a 5-minute episode shot for Children in Need where they've used a rough cut instead of the broadcast version (the music, for instance, is lifted from Road to Perdition and the sound effects are missing).

Oh, and it costs £50.

SG

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gotta ask - why raw rutabegas? And didn't poor irish peasant folk eat LOTS of root veggies? I think that's why they drank so much - to get the taste out of their mouths....

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