My Quest to be Jack Donaghy Some Day
Every fall a host of new shows comes to broadcast television. Among the new shows there will inevitably be a mix of sitcoms, procedural dramas, and prime-time soap operas. In addition, each year at...
View ArticleDear Fox, I know you produced ‘Lone Star’ and I know it was terrible. Now...
My first few weeks of research have been defined alternately by great frustration and great amusement. The frustration is with finding some of the shows that I had planned to watch in my research...
View ArticleMusic in a Children’s Hospital: “Productive Escapism” and Justin Bieber
My project is designing my own music volunteer program at a children’s hospital in my hometown of Fort Worth, Texas. I’ve volunteered there twice before, so I was allowed to work with the patients...
View ArticleLearning all about harm reduction programs
I’ve been spending the past 5 weeks just sifting through whatever I can find regarding harm reduction drug policies, figuring out what I need and what I don’t. It’s been really interesting, learning...
View ArticleMeasuring a show’s success by how low professional women wear their shirts.
At this point I’ve seen all that I will be able to see this summer. Certain shows are completely unavailable on hulu, huluPlus, Netflix, iTunes, and Amazon. I found Lone Star on Amazon, including six...
View ArticleThrow ratings out the window. They’re wrong anyway.
The most difficult challenge I faced when putting together ideas for this project was trying to figure out how to deal with ratings. I’m trying to measure success and potential success of a show, and...
View ArticleSo close!
So remember how I was hoping to visit Geneva’s injection site? That never happened. Annette Verster unfortunately never got back to me, even though I emailed her twice after the interview. Instead I...
View ArticleThe Future of Television Programming: Only Sorta on TV
What I was most surprised by in my research was how much did not surprise me. As much as there have been shows in the past that were canceled despite being great and having a decent amount of devoted...
View ArticleLast one!!
So I’ve finally finished writing everything. It was a lot of information to compile and put all together and write it all up. I didn’t have the time to talk to as many people as I would have liked (and...
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