Wed, 29 August 2007
For those of you who actually pay attention to the TWSS news segments, you may remember Ian and I talking about how Fox and NBC were teaming up to create a YouTube-like video streaming service that would both allow on-demand streaming of popular shows as well as allow other services access to distribute the videos themselves. Well, let's let the good people at Adweek.com explain how this thing workds: "When it does launch, the site will allow fans to stream episodes of NBC series such as The Office and Friday Night Lights, along with the soon-to-launch remake of The Bionic Woman. Meanwhile, Fox is planning to offer on-demand episodes of staples like The Simpsons and Mad TV as well as premiering shows such as the New Orleans-set cop drama K-Ville. In addition to Hulu.com, the sweeping venture will see these series distributed across the biggest sites on the Web, including AOL, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo!." Well, low and behold, the thing is finally almost ready to launch sometime in October. The name of the new site? HULU.com. Yep. Hulu. Why Hulu, for the love of god? To quote the CEO of the new venture: "Objectively, Hulu is short, easy to spell, easy to pronounce and rhymes with itself," he wrote. "Subjectively, Hulu strikes us as an inherently fun name, one that captures the spirit of the service we're building. Our hope is that Hulu will embody our (admittedly ambitious) never-ending mission, which is to help you find and enjoy the world's premiere content when, where and how you want it." Ooooooh-kay. In any event, if you'd like to try and beta-test the new website, head on over to hulu.com and leave your e-mail address. You just might get lucky.
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-- posted at: 11:57pm EDT
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Wed, 29 August 2007
Just a quick note-- Angela Kinsey recently participated in a moderated discussion about the secrets of improvisational comedy at I. O. West's monthly "Inside the Improvisors Studio" show. Backstage.com summarized the talk for our reading pleasure.
"Kinsey said the seeds of her career were sewn at an early age. "I went to a very progressive [elementary] school in Indonesia," she recalled. "My English teacher had us do improv exercises as a way to brainstorm, and then I had this great theatre teacher, Dr. Allen, and he used improv. And so I just kept looking for that kind of thing." She continued her acting training at HB Studio in New York. "They were doing a lot of classical pieces, and I would bring in pieces I wrote and it would be like, 'Hey, I wrote this thing. It's called "Plant Lady." She talks to her plants,' " she said with a laugh. Kinsey later moved to Los Angeles to study improv at the Groundlings and I.O. West. "It just seemed like where I was studying in New York was much more classical, which was great, but I wanted to experiment." To read the rest of the article, go HERE.
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-- posted at: 11:43pm EDT
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Wed, 29 August 2007
Not sure what I think about this promo clip... it's about 3 minutes long, and features all of our favorite "Officians" dishing on what they did over the Summer. The problem? This little clip actually covers a lot of material I assumed would be dealt with in the ACTUAL episodes. And Ryan's posture? Come on, man... you've only been gone four months (at most). What's with the big act? Well? What'd you guys think?
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-- posted at: 9:43pm EDT
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Wed, 29 August 2007
As most of you may already know, the reruns of THE OFFICE will begin airing on cable channel TBS on Tuesday September 11th at 10pm/9pm Central. The episodes will continue to air on subsequent Tuesdays. TBS's official THE OFFICE page can be found HERE. Do I need to remind anyone that the season 3 DVD set hits stores on September 4th? I didn't think so. What you might NOT know is this-- Best Buy is offering a special exclusive set for season 3, called the "Welcome Aboard Kit." Included in this special pack is the DVD set, a Dundie Award, a Dwight Schrute Mini- Bobblehead and a Welcome Aboard letter packed in an "Office" storage box. The price for all of this extra swag? $42.99. The regular old vanilla set will run $32.99. If you're interested in the special set, prepare to get their early-- supplies will be limited.
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-- posted at: 8:29pm EDT
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Wed, 29 August 2007
The official convention page finally posted some information today:
Memo To: All Employees From: Dunder-Mifflin Corporate Party Planning Committee Date: August 29, 2007 Re: The Office Convention Just a reminder that the October 26-28 company gathering is rapidly approaching. We're in talks with employees from all of our regional branches and everyone is very excited, especially the Scranton branch, who will be hosting the convention. At this time, we don't have a full list of who may be attending since it's right in the middle of Dunder-Mifflin's fall busy season, but we expect a lot of participation from our favorite employees. We are, however, happy to announce many of the activities that we've already scheduled, and we are doing our best to encourage as large an attendance as possible. Here's a sampling of some of the planned activities:
Sincerely, The Dunder-Mifflin Corporate Party Planning Committee With no announced guest appearances, I don't think this is enough to get me to Scranton. Still, at least they finally announced SOMEthing. Anyone here still planning to attend?
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-- posted at: 8:26pm EDT
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