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A month after Disney gets its 30% share in Hulu (why is everyone only surprised about it now?), all the ABC shows that will be streaming there have been announced:

– Full episodes for ABC’s Lost and Grey’s Anatomy as well as ABC Family’s The Secret Life of the American Teenager and Greek.
– Episodes from some ABC daytime shows like General Hospital and The View.
– Canceled/old shows like Commander in Chief, Hope & Faith, as well as Less Than Perfect.
– A few Disney Channel shows as well as a couple of classic Disney movies.

Meanwhile, E!’s Save One Show poll results have been announced with The Sarah Connor Chronicles leading at 53%, more than twice the numbers that Chuck pulled (25%) and over five times Dollhouse‘s (10%). Life only got 8% followed by Privileged at 4%.

For those who care, I’m also still working on my list of pilots that I think will get picked up (more on that next week) as well as my “What you need to know before the new Star Trek” post.

Passing the buck

After being right for a day, it looks like I (and everyone else) is wrong.
Showtime has not picked up Tim Robbin’s pilot which he both wrote and directed (Possible Side Effects).

Rumors are flying around that the pass on Possible Side Effects is due to its subject matter (the pharmaceutical drug industry) and pharmaceutical corps are among the top advertisers over at another Viacom network: CBS.

So, ultimately, out of the 4 pilots ordered by Sho, none of them were picked up.
Cash thrown out the window?

Variety has a piece up discussing how the networks are trying to minimize the spendings by co-producing or buying international properties instead of investing in pilots that won’t ultimately be picked up.
Overall, a pretty interesting read which takes a look at why certain shows are currently on the bubble.

In other TV news, TNT meanwhile has canceled Trust Me.

As for the recent Dollhouse/13-episode matter, I’ll be talking about that in more detail very soon in my follow-up article to the Four Reasons why Dollhouse might be Renewed.

Even Luck

Is it just me or is nothing major happening in el biz?
I mean, besides all the layoffs.

Since I don’t have much to talk about, I’ve decided I’ll blog about a never-ending supply of epicness and failures all-in-one: me!

Wow, I just saw my stats drop by 80% just then.

Anyway, I had these few weeks what some might call bad luck, others good luck.
I call it even.

On the one hand, I had very bad things happening to me, like loosing all my computer data (still no news on when, or even if, I’ll get it back, and for how much).

But on the other, some great stuff is going on.
Next week for instance I’ve arranged an interview (by phone) with Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof (mainly for Lostpedia).

I’m also getting my V.I.P. Pass later this month for both the Lost and Battlestar Galactica events over at Paris’ Jules Vernes Festival, with respectively, again Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse for Lost, and James Callis, Mary McDonell, and Jamie Bamber, for the BSG panel.

It’s also a strong possibility that I’m going to Cannes for the Film Festival and the Short Film Corner in May (although the price for an appartment over there during that time is a jaw-dropper, so it’s not yet locked).

Obviously I’ll try to report on all of those events in due time.

In the meantime, I’ll let you go back to your life (I can’t believe you read that post entirely!).