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I didn’t say anything when we applied for it, because I didn’t want to jinx it, but my company did join the National Council for Children’s Television‘s Nationwide Search for the Coolest Television Program Proposals for Children, and we won. Well, one of our entries won. All the four entries we submitted were among the 11 finalists, which was pretty cool in on itself. Each of the companies behind the three winning pitches will be given a start-up fund to finance the production of the pilot episode.

This is one of those times where I’m reminded how lucky I am that I get to work with such incredibly talented people. When we joined the Search, I offered whatever I could. Which wasn’t really much, as I didn’t know much about television, or how shows are made. The proposals were developed by the others, and all I could offer was mostly just encouragement. Even when I presented the pitches (I did two of the four), one of them — the winning entry — wasn’t even my pitch. M. developed it and did the first draft of the PowerPoint. I showed up, smiled at the panel, and did the best presentation I could.

I’m now on episode 9 of the SBS drama Rooftop Prince (옥탑방 왕세자). The plot is possibly the most contrived one I’ve ever come across in a Korean drama, but I’m overlooking that because the show is hilarious. Plus most of the cast is great. I say most, because the actors playing the two villains seem to be trying to impersonate a couple of cardboard cutouts of people wearing expressions. To be fair, they’re not really given much to do other than look surprised whenever someone walks into a room. Or whenever they walk into a room. Seriously, you could make a drinking game out of it: you’ll finish a bottle of soju by episode three.

I was hoping for two things. One, that I would like the new ABC show “Castle“. Two, that it would get good enough ratings that it doesn’t get dropped before the fifth episode. It’s Nathan Fillion, you see. The man is cute, talented and funny, and he played a space ship captain with very tight [...]

I watch a lot of television. Way too much for my own good. Even when I’m reading or writing or cooking, I always have something playing in the background. It’s partly my ADD, but that’s another story. Television shows are like men. Boyfriends, to be exact. For instance, Battlestar Galactica is this deep, intellectual guy [...]

From the Entropy blog. This isn’t spoilery, trust me. I was actually thinking of writing a truly spoilery review of Battlestar Galactica 4×11 (“Sometimes A Great Notion”) here. I still am. In the meantime, I just wanted to say a few things. To say that 4×11 was gut-wrenching is to say that the universe is [...]