After a century of popular and learned enlightenment — Charles Beard and Howard Zinn; civil rights and decolonization; Africana Studies, Chicano Studies, gender studies, genocide studies; the American Indian Movement and the endangered species list — we’re supposed to know better. Yet it’s still rather impossible to look at a map of the North American continent and not see a destiny logical and inevitable — indeed, manifest. Once the strip of British colonies on the Atlantic coast wrested a divorce from the mother country, where else could history have gone but west, till it hit another ocean? Like the nursery-catalog saplings assigned to numbered growing zones, Americans — or estadounidenses, to borrow a sorely lacking word from the hemispheric neighbors — seem bred for germination along a sharply bounded clime.
SKY and TVNZ launching pay TV service
SKY Television and Television New Zealand (TVNZ) today announced that they have formed a partnership to launch a new digital pay television service, delivering pay channels over SKY’s digital terrestrial spectrum. SKY has a 51% shareholding and TVNZ a 49% shareholding in the joint venture.
The new service will provide paid-for and free content, including free-to-air channels, to a digital decoder, which is also readied to utilise Ultra-Fast-Broadband (UFB) in the future.
The launch will be in the first half of 2012, timed to take advantage of the digital switchover (DSO), when a large number of New Zealand homes will need to transition to a digital television service.
SKY’s Chief Executive Officer, John Fellet, said;
“It’s exciting to be working together with TVNZ to provide Kiwis with more television viewing options.
Kardashian Boycott? Get a life!!
The Web has been buzzing lately with the news that a Kardashian boycott is gaining steam. My response is, GET A LIFE PEOPLE!! According to a New York Post article, over 125,000 people have gotten online and joined a petition for the E! ch Full Post…
GREEN LANTERN Producer Talks Animated Series, Red Lanterns
Green Lantern: The Animated Series premieres Friday, Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. on Cartoon Network, a special one-hour sneak peek before the show makes its proper debut in spring 2012. Newsarama talked to producer Giancarlo Volpe — a veteran of and — about what comic book fans can expect from the show, the first CGI-animated series based on a DC comic book.
Newsarama: Giancarlo, you’ve worked on plenty of different animated series, but Green Lantern: The Animated Series is your first one that’s strictly comic book-based. Were you pretty well versed in the medium, or did this project require some amount of research?
Giancarlo Volpe: A little bit of both. I was really into comics when I was younger — early teens. My br