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A special audio-only feature from [1] New Message:
theme songs from TV shows that never were. Or were they?Giotto Massacio was an Italian filmmaker who came to America to fulfill his childhood dream of making an American Western TV show. Unfortunately, he arrived in 1977, at least 15 years after the Golden Age of TV Westerns.
Undaunted, Carlo funneled his Western obsession into another genre: the police drama. Their saloon was a bar on Van Nuys, their “horse” was muscle car, but Breedlove and Marcus, "two unconventional cops bringing their own brand of justice to the streets" were almost prototypically Western heroes.
Specifically, they were “Spaghetti Western” heroes, which made for the show problematic for both fans of cop shows and of traditional Westerns. For instance, why did they always wear full length cattleman’s raincoats in Southern California? Who puts horns as a hood ornament on a muscle car? Did anyone really still say "I reckon?" Why all those close-ups of people’s eyes?
While well received by film buffs, the show never found a solid audience, and was quickly replaced by an generically generic police procedural.
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A modest tribute to a well-known classic. If you haven't seen the Twilight Zone episode To Serve Man, or read the original short story by sci-fi master Damon Knight, you should. A classic twist ending, horrifying yet oddly funny.
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Saknas det avsnitt?
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Learn to count, the zombie apocalypse way.
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Hundreds, maybe thousands of years of legends--yet no confirmed sightings of a mermaid. Is it because they're just in the imagination of very lonely sailors? Or is the reason for the mystery something...sharper?
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[One] New Message returns with four more Halloween-themed videos each week in October. And everything ends with a live performance of all four scripts at the 16th annual Halloween Movie Madness on Saturday 29 October. Live music, undead comedy, and fiendish games and audience participation.
The 4 Weeks of Halloween are coming. Prepare yourself.
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Time Travel is a tough job. And filling out your timecard is the toughest part. [One] New Message is here to help.
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More videos are coming--was busy last few weeks putting on a live show (Yeti attack! Murder by comb! Fart jokes!). In the interim, here's a new trailer for [One] New Message, emphasizing one of the most attractive features of the episodes: they're short.
Pass it on! Tell your friends. Tell your neighbors. Tell your friends' neighbors. Tell your neighbors' friends.
More soon!
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For the last week of Halloween, we get back to basics: it's a ghost!
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For decades, I've been haunted by a single paragraph, a single decision, in the novel Frankenstein. So here's an alternate take on the horror classic.
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One New Message continues its celebration of the four weeks of Halloween with a slasher tale--by telegram?
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One New Message celebrates the four weeks leading up to Halloween. This week: zombies!
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Hey, the fictional corporation from episode 13 just became our fictional sponsor! First ad: Lasers!
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Since a lot of us finalists couldn't be at the Parsec Awards Ceremony, they asked if we could send a 15-30 second audio or video acceptance speech in case we won. I sent in this.
(And just to repeat: if you're looking for some cool podcasts to listen to, both fiction and talk, I encourage you to check out the Parsec Awards Finalist list. You'll find some great stuff there.)
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The corporation is instituting a cost-saving measure you've got to see to believe...
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A starship captain uncovers a grievous injustice.
Director's Commentary:
STOS Kirk would probably just seeth internally about this, but I'm pretty sure that the new Kirk would drag the cook over the counter by the lapels and get those waffles now."Frakking?" "Gorram?" "Tanj?" I finally settled on "Frigging" as a way of keeping this relatively universe-neutral.In related news, if you haven't seen this classic by Eddie Izzard, please do so now. -
It's been a long time since I read Moby Dick, but I'm pretty sure this is exactly how it happened.
(Featuring “Whale” iconby Joao Santos from thenounproject.com, and in-episode music “A New Beginning" by Bensound.com.)
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A brief briefing about (what will probably be) a brief mission.
Director's Commentary:
[1] New Message welcomes guest star Sean Mitchell (Sean and I are currently hosting the arts interview podcast The Artist Rolls).I'd like to take credit for the punchline, but that's all Sean. -
The phone call you hope you'll never have to make--or receive. The alien invasion is an unexpected bonus.
Director's Commentary:
This was actually the first [1] New Message script I ever wrote, back before I even had a title. I liked the idea of an alien invasion that was embarrassing. -
[1] New Message goes for the cheap laugh.
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This week's message is my little tribute to The Core.
Director's Commentary:
True story: I saw The Core in the theater. At the end, our heroes are rescued from the ocean floor off Hawaii by attracting the attention of a pod of Orcas (I am not making this up). At this point I leaned over to my buddy and said "It wouldn't be Orcas--they're cold water." We both though about this for a second, then busted up laughing at the thought that, after all the pseudo-science and absurdist hand-waving of the previous ninety minutes, I was finally roused from my popcorn-infused stupor by a perceived cetacean inconsistency(1).And for the record: The Core used the term "unobtanium" way before Avatar.(1) As it turns out, Orcas are found around the Hawaiian islands, so who's laughing now, eh?
- Visa fler
