• 3Apr 09

  On TV.com

  If you haven't already, please take a look at Jaxiecracks' latest blog. She has very eloquently expressed the community team's take on the changes to the site, and I'm in complete agreement. It's difficult to express all we can say in a public place, of course, but overall I'm still optimistic for the future of the site and for the future of the community on this site. Ultimately, the aim (as is the aim of any website) is to make the site's userbase grow, and to do so without alienating the current users. The latter is significantly more difficult than the former.
  
  That said, please please please keep sharing feedback, keep making your voices heard, keep posting your blogs and your comments and your forum posts. It's the main way we have of showing the management how passionate our community is about this site, how much YOU care for the site and for its future. Thanks everyone for the feedback so far.
  • Posted Apr 3, 2009 9:22 am PT
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• 3Dec 08

  Thanksgiving & 'orphaned guides'

  Hey all. I hope everyone had a fun and safe Thanksgiving weekend. Back to work for everyone here at TV.com, though. I miss my family already. Since a lot of my family are going all over the place for Christmas, we decided on getting as many people as we could together for the Thanksgiving holiday. It was wonderful, seeing everyone (some of whom I hadn't seen in over a year) and getting to taste all of that wonderful home cooking that I could never seem to emulate on my own. I don't have the magic touch. Not only did we have turkey, but BBQ pork as well. What a feast! I'm still dreaming about it.
  

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  On the TV.com side, as I work through the MIA editors again, I have a short list of available guides that someone might be interested in taking over as editor. Take a look and see if any of these strike your fancy.
  
  Kath & Kim - The new NBC version of the Australian comedy.
  
  American Playhouse - This guide for this long-running PBS series is in need of cleaning up.
  
  Macross Frontier - The latest incarnation of the stalwart anime franchise needs summaries and recaps for quite a few episodes.
  
  David Morrissey - Starring in Doctor Who's "The Next Doctor", there's still some speculation that this actor will be the one to take over the venerable role of TARDIS operator and universal do-gooder once David Tennant leaves the series at the end of the 2009 specials.
  • Posted Dec 3, 2008 12:49 pm PT
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• 21Nov 08

  Road trip, Community, and TV

  Thanksgiving is next week Thursday for us Americans, and while all of the TV.com staff have Thursday and Friday off to celebrate, I'm going on vacation for the entirety of next week. I'll be road-tripping down from San Francisco to L.A. and spending the holiday with family. So this means I won't be able to answer PMs or process MIA submissions until I come back on Dec. 1st. danmod and jaxiecracks will be around as usual if you need help.
  

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  I should also mention that the second of our Lights, Camera, Community interviews has been posted, and this time, we've interviewed Grailwolf! Be sure to check it out!
  

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  And finally my TV update. I'm a little upset with the news about Pushing Daisies, especially since the series sounds like it's going to end up on a cliffhanger. It was truly one of the most unique series airing (I don't know how many other comedy/drama/romance/fantasy/mystery shows exist out there), and I'm very sad to see it go. I understand why. It was a little too quirky for a mainstream audience to accept, which makes me wonder if this show would have done better on cable. But that's just speculation. With Bryan Fuller saying that he wanted to return to working on Heroes if anything happened to Daisies, I think the fate of the Piemaker and the Girl Named Chuck is sealed.
  
  In somewhat better news, I'm glad that ABC's version of Life on Mars will be returning next year, but it still has that troubling spot after Lost, and as I've mentioned before, no series has followed Lost and survived more than a few weeks. But I think they do make a good pairing. Both are shows with underlying mysteries at their core and I hope that Life on Mars picks up new viewers from the Lost audience.
  • Posted Nov 21, 2008 11:41 am PT
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