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TV Guide has dropped off of its sked grid The CW and MTV among others.
Ouch.
How the hell will I know now when Smallville premieres?

This morning FOX confirmed that Prison Break is canceled with the last epis being shown on Fridays (with Terminator and Dollhouse).
Virtuality was described as too “dense” by Kevin Reilly and the pilot is being recut to one hour instead of the two it should have been.

Meanwhile, NBC announced that 90% of the Super Bowl ads had already been sold.
Some of the movie trailers shown will be for Transformers 2, Up, Wolverine, G.I. Joe, Angels & Demons, Land of the Lost, The Fast and The Furious, Star Trek, and Monsters v. Aliens (with disappointing Red & Blue glasses).
As for the TV side of things, Heroes will have a special trailer made for the Super Bowl and Chuck will promote its 3-D episode.

And here’s for you a behind-the-scenes pic of Cameron’s Avatar.

Also, Bush wants his own 15 minutes of fame by asking fifteen minutes of airtime on each of the major nets next Thursday, to say goodbye.
Please make it quick.

The smell of change in the morning

Some more fresh news hot off the printer.

Let’s begin with a quick follow-up to my awesome prediction from the other day on how 3-D will rule us all in a decade or so.

What’s the one industry that can make or break a format? Or, in our case, a new era of entertainment pleasure?
Was your first thought ‘porn’?
If yes, then you’d be right.
If we would have been talking about the 90s.
Porn embraced first HD DVD and look where that format went.
Bottom line is: Porn endorsement is now kinda useless, especially when everyone is basically downloading his (her?) porn.
There’s also no 3-D Porn in the works as far as I know.
But I have high hopes (or is that low expectations?) that one is coming our way soon.
No pun intended.
Seriously.

Don’t worry, I’m going somewhere with all of this.

So, back to the question.
What’s the industry that will lead Joe Six Pack to watch 3-D stuff?
It’s not per se an entertainment industry, but it definitely has its own (big, huge) weight.
I am of course talking about sports.
And to be more precise, the NFL.
Tomorrow night will be broadcast live in 3-D to theaters in Los Angeles, New York and Boston a game between the San Diego Chargers and the Oakland Raiders.


I may go out on a huge limb here again, but I’m pretty sure that in 2 decades, if not less, watching 3-D sports at home will become a common thing.

Also, LG announced that they would try to market at least one 3-D TV in 2009.
And we’re already in December 2008 folks.

Meanwhile, CBS just announced its mid-season schedule while ABC the premiere date of some of its new shows.

Let’s begin with CBS.
First things first, Flashpoint season 2 will premiere Jan. 9.
Did I forget to mention that the missing 4 episodes from season 1 are added to the whopping total of 18 season 2 episodes ordered?
That’s a full season of 22 episodes for you.
The 13-hour Harper’s Island (I sense a backdoor series somewhere) will be broadcast from April 9 to July 2.

Not much more news regarding dramas since there hasn’t been much canceling lately on CBS’ side.

Remember how NBC only announced their January skeds?
Well it seems that ABC is announcing the premiere of its new shows — for around March-April.
Mondays (March 9) will see the arrival of the long-awaited Castle (by most Nathan Fillion fans).
The reboot of Rob Thomas’ Cupid will premiere meanwhile starting March 24 on Tuesdays.
The Unusuals will take place on Wednesdays (beginning April 8).

Why so late?
Well, you might have guessed this, but ABC wants to finish showing its fall shows before beginning its mid-season’s.

Notice a trend in all of this?
Mid-season shows are beginning more and more frequently to premiere late in the season (as late as April-May for some).
Are we converging to year-long original drama programming or what?

Mark my words

Mark my words

Sound was introduced in 1927.
Color was introduced in 1938.
3-D will be introduced in 2009.

I know what you’re about to say.
Sure, 3-D has been around for some time now, but it’s still only a gimmick.
Current “3-D movies” are not movies made in 3-D, there are movies made for/with 3-D.
If you’ve ever been to Disneyland’s Honey, I Shrunk The Audience, or, hell, even any 3-D IMAX movie, you know what I’m talking about.
Also, sound in movies already existed prior to The Jazz Singer, same goes for color with the Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind.
So when the technique was first used/invented doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things.

Avatar isn’t “gimmicking” its way into 3-D.
It is thought, made, shot, edited, and shown in 3-D.

“What has that gotta do with us?” you may ask dear wannabe screenwriter.
Well it probably for now won’t change anything script-wise, but just think about it.
IMAX didn’t change the way people write scripts, when 8mm became 16mm and then transformed into 35mm and 70mm (28K next?), that didn’t change the way people write scripts.
Before sound there were no dialogues in scripts.
Before color there wasn’t any real vivid description in scripts.

I am talking about real, profound, no-way-back changes here.

True 3-D movies have to be thought and created in 3-D.
Again, you can’t just “gimmick-up” standard movies.
Disney is going to do that with all the Toy Stories (and now Beauty and the Beast), but you and I both know those are not true 3-D movies.
If they were, something huge would have been missing from the first time we laid eyes on them.

A real 3-D movie must be thought out from the beginning in 3-D, and that means from the script.

3rd Rock from the Sun, Medium, and now Chuck, proved that 3-D could be successfully shown on TV.

Now think about where we will be 20-30 years from now in the entertainment industry.
No-glasses 3-D TVs are being made as you’re reading this.

It’s just a matter of time.
3-D will catch on as did sound and color before it.
Even on TV.

Obama made American history, Avatar will make entertainment and cinematic history.