February 21, 2012
Ex-Pat Whining: The Game Changer
I cancelled my subscription to cable years ago (self-defense in the age of reality TV). I am signed up to Netflix and Hulu and have access to new releases through Zune. So, like every other entertainment writer, I have been meaning to write about “Lilyhammer” this week, but I also discovered “Defying Gravity,” the ill-fated 2009 ABC astronaut show. The tenuous connection between the two is that I found both through entertainment applications, the pertinent difference being that “Lilyhammer” was aimed at a global market and “Defying Gravity” was aimed at a Sunday night ABC audience. The debut of “Lilyhammer” signals the moment when the game changed.
Our intrepid intern Andrew Hurley wants to play with the big boys, so he’s going to start writing a semi-regular column for us. Since he’s from Wales, and living in Brooklyn, the title of his column was a no brainer. If you’d like to read it in its entirety, please sign up for the newsletter in the box to the right. It’s just $4.99 per month, which comes to less than 25 cents each day.