Lost Remote offers a fascinating alternative to today’s TV model: “Getting cancelled is the best possible thing that could have happened to Arrested Development. No longer shackled by the whim of a fickle network, “AD” can take advantage of all the technologies now available for video delivery and make more money. The model is just waiting to happen: AD, a pioneer in its style of comedy, should pioneer this, too.”

If you’re in the network business (TV or radio), this is worth a read. [via The Long Tail]

“A study by LA-based research firm OTX found among young men 13-25, 24 percent saw fewer movies than they did in 2003 and have shifted that leisure time to IMing and playing video games. Of course, unsurprisingly, it’s also due to only 35 percent saying there’s an “excellent selection” of movies as opposed to 60 percent two years ago. Cost was also cited as a factor as well with 68 percent claiming movies have become too expensive.” [AdRants]

Shitty movies that cost too much. Crappy theaters. Endless ads for karate studios and overweight real estate agents with bad hair. We were planning to see Serenity and Mirrormask in a theater but, you know what? Screw the theaters. Not another dime. I’m gonna wait for the DVDs.

I have no idea how many times I’ve seen that movie (1967) but I never spotted Dreyfuss. He’s only on screen for a few seconds, peeking around Norman Fell, but that was enough for Barb. For those who have seen the movie or care, it’s the appartment house scene and it really looks like Dreyfuss pushes in front of the other extras to get his face front-and-center. And since we’re knee-deep in trivia, I have to wonder if this tiny part for Norman Fell (the apartment manager) contributed in any way to his casting as Mr. Roper in Three’s Company.

“Good Night, And Good Luck.” takes place during the early days of broadcast journalism in 1950’s America. It chronicles the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee. With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the public, Murrow, and his dedicated staff – headed by his producer Fred Friendly and Joe Wershba in the CBS newsroom – defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to examine the lies and scaremongering tactics perpetrated by McCarthy during his communist ‘witch-hunts’. A very public feud develops when the Senator responds by accusing the anchor of being a communist. In this climate of fear and reprisal, the CBS crew carries on and their tenacity will prove historic and monumental.

Produced by George Clooney, GN&GL opens in October. Won’t be a dry eye in the newsroom.

NYPD Blue co-creator Steven Bochco is developing another cop show, this time for the WB. Variety.com describes it as “a young-skewing hourlong cop/mystery show revolving around two Hollywood homicide detectives at the LAPD.” Bochco says the untitled project will be “a little lighter in tone. It’s not heavy-duty or long on procedural. It owes more to ‘Columbo’ than ‘CSI.’ “

Bochco wrote a pretty fair Hollywood mystery novel a couple of years ago (Death by Hollywood) but I’m wondering if what I liked most about NYPD Blue came from the (then) tortured mind of David Milch.