Tag: TV
An NBC news special from the dawn of the ’80s documented an exciting new trend — TVs that could display data like the weather, sports scores, news or even early video games. Data services like Ceefax and Viewtex, who provided this info, weren’t connected to the internet, but their services looked towards the future of technology […]
According to a new study by the Americans’ Use Of Time (AUOT) project, though people believe they are too busy and have less free time, we actually have been gradually getting less busy over the last 40 years. It’s taken as common wisdom that we’re getting busier as a society. With Americans scrambling to acquire jobs, trying […]
No. Tony Soprano did not die at the end of The Sopranos, because the dude who created an ambiguous ending in an imaginary world said so. […]
Mind Game director Yuasa Masaaki directed an episode of Adventure Time! Watch a preview clip above. You will learn about the circle of life DEATH. You know when Adventure Time whisks you away into a land of whimsy and magical surrealism and existentialist suffering? This one is manic and decidedly one of the darker episodes. And Finn’s […]
True Detective may be out of our lives for now, but WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU. Thanks for keeping it going, internet. The latest spin-off Tumblr to join the ranks of such purveyors of inside jokes as True Detective Conversations, True Detective Valentines and True and Confused is Time Is a Flat Circus. It’s Rust Cohle quotes, in all their existentially […]
Last night, HBO Go crashed in the middle of too many people trying to legally watch the True Detective season finale, so some of you haven’t seen Rust and Marty ▒▒▒▒ ▒▒ ▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒ “L’chaim, fat-ass!” ▒▒▒ ▒▒▒ but then ▒▒▒▒ ▒▒ ▒▒▒ and ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ holy shit ▒▒▒ ▒▒ ▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒ FUUUUUUUUUUCK ▒▒▒▒▒!!!!!!▒▒… wow. Let’s catch up. Designer and illustrator Nigel Evan Dennis created a beautiful True Detective tribute page featuring […]
Well, this is unusual. To promote the next season of smash-hit Game of Thrones, HBO will release a mixtape of hip hop and Latin artists making music about the show. Participating musicians include Wale, Big Boi, Daddy Yankee, Bodega Bamz, and Common. From the sound of things, it’s a pretty blatant ploy to attract a nonwhite audience. […]
The above minute-long spot for MarijuanaDoctors.com began airing yesterday on CNN, Comedy Central, The History Channel, and A&E in New Jersey, making it the first weed commercial to be shown on major U.S. TV networks. In it, a fast-talking faux drug dealer slings high quality raw fish in back alleys before a voice-over asks, “You wouldn’t […]
Jimmy Fallon’s first episode at the helm of The Tonight Show was last night, and a host of celebrities came by to welcome him with a little cash. “I can’t believe this is happening. I’m really sitting here. I want to say thanks to all the fans for their support,” Fallon says at the beginning of the clip […]
YouTube user Omni Verse does the hard work so you don’t have to, compiling every single episode of various cult-classic TV shows into mega-screens so you can watch every episode of, say The Twilight Zone, at the same time. His latest, above, pulls this trick with The A-Team. Omni Verse leaves the audio in place as well, so you’re […]
