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Christian Johnson shares his thoughts on some of the best “geek movies” ever, from the year 1982. The post brings back memories of my salad days in college, but 1982 seems like only yesterday. Standing in line for Star Trek II (“Khaaan!!”), Poltergeist, and Tron — I saw a lot of movies that year, I guess. Still haven’t seen E.T. though.
In another sign that medievalism sells, CBS just signed a multimillion-dollar contract for a new “costume drama” set in the Middle Ages, outbidding NBC and Fox for the show.
The broadcast networks went medieval over “The Kingdom,” a Middle Ages drama set in Europe’s world of castles, kings and typhoid fever.
That doesn’t sound like the period I’m studying, unless there was a vase-of-Soissons-moment in the negotiations.
Written by “Runaway” creator Chad Hodge, “Kingdom” is described as a medieval “Entourage.” It revolves around four guys, one of whom is crowned king and reluctantly takes the throne despite preferring drinking and sex to procession and war.
I don’t know anything about “Runaway,” but “Entourage” is one of our favorite shows at Castle Logographer. It’s unclear from the article whether “Kingdom” is going to be a comedy, though. And there’s no mention of when it will air. At any rate, I’ll tell my TiVo to watch for it.
A few days ago I said that I enjoy reading Jeff Sypeck, and his post comparing Tony Soprano to Charlemagne gives me another reminder to check Quid plura regularly. I especially like the film ideas at the end of the post and in the comments section. Very funny!
Eric Bangeman at Ars Technica gives a short summary of the recent HD DVD content restriction brouhaha, including links to the Digg part of the story.
As this photo essay from Wired magazine makes clear, you can’t turn back the clock on the cracking of HD DVD content management.