TV Tyrant

The TV Tyrant approaches the new year in a new way

December 29th, 2009 | by | boxee, hulu, time-shift

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Anyone who follows this blog even ever-so-slightly has noticed an extreme drop-off in posts in recent months.

Part of the problem, I think, is that there has been so much excellent – or, at least fun – television (sandwiched between all the crap that’s out there) that I sometimes have been at a loss of what to write about. With too much to think about, I can have trouble, sometimes, deciding what to write about and what to let slip by.

But the new year approaches and with that, I have resolved to pay more attention to the shows that are worthy of deeper discussion. Some are, some aren’t.

My posts won’t necessarily always be the next day, however, as we made a major step in our household: We canceled our cable service.

So much of what we want is already online, via Hulu and other sources. We have a Boxee account and plan to get one of those boxes that lets us stream directly into our TV via Boxee, without having to hook up our laptop to the TV. We also got a Netflix account, finally (have meant to forever) and we already have Hex (a British sci-fi-ish series), United States of Tara and Veronica Mars in our queue.

The only thing that nearly made me cancel our cancellation is that I won’t be able to live-blog 24 with my buddies over at Blogs4Bauer, but I’m working on a solution to that. The same solution should aid in my ability to watch Supernatural in real-time. Need to set up the DVD-R, though, for those situations, as a backup.

I know ABC streams episodes of Lost the next morning, so that’s close enough for government work. Sci-Fi should stream Caprica as it did Battlestar Galactica. I should be able to watch Fringe on Hulu – we already were watching The Office and 30 Rock on Hulu, because Thursday’s were booked up with Flash Forward, Fringe, Supernatural and The Vampire Diaries. But I never really got hooked on Vampire Diaries, so maybe I’ll Netflix it sometime.

I know many people who’ve gone without “regular” TV for years now. I’ve extolled the virtues of time-shift viewing for years. I’ve now made the ultimate shift. Come along for the ride.

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FOTC: Over

December 10th, 2009 | by | canceled, flight of the conchords

Dec
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Flight of the Conchords, sadly, has come to an end.

Picture 1If I were to be perfectly honest about it, I’m of two minds on this. Part of me is quite sad about it, as it was one of the funniest shows out there. The songs were hilarious, the deliver impeccable.

But the problem is that the show was based on the songs that FOTC (Bret and Jemaine) composed. The first season was based on songs they already had written. Season two took as long as it did to get on the air because they had to write a whole slew of new songs.

While Season 2 was not as consistently hilarious as the first, it was still funnier – consistently – than most sitcoms.

From FOTC’s website:

Bret, Jemaine and James (co-creator/director) said “we’ve noticed the less we say about the future of the show, the more people want to talk about it, so in an effort to reverse this trend we are today announcing that we won’t be returning for a 3rd season. We’re very proud of the two seasons we made and we like the way the show ended. We’d like to thank everyone who helped make the show and also everyone who watched it. While the characters Bret and Jemaine will no longer be around, the real Bret and Jemaine will continue to exist.

I just have to say, I’m quite relieved that the REAL Bret & Jemaine will continue to exist.

For those who can’t remember how the second season ended: Bret & Jemaine were deported back to New Zealand, where they were tending sheep on a mountaintop.

Here are some of my favorite FOTC songs:

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